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Subject: Re: radius user-password on the wire
From: John Dennis <jdennis () redhat ! com>
Date: 2008-04-29 14:14:47
Message-ID: 48172D57.4020807 () redhat ! com
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Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
> Hello,
> I used wireshark to sniff communication between my radisu server and
> the user-password attribute is encrypted
>
>
> 0000 3e ca 2d b0 97 2b b3 f9 0c e9 fc e7 e0 ed e9 fd
>
>
> to test if this is strong enough I wanted to ask if there is a way to
> decrypt
> this user-password attribute since my radisu server is doign proxy to
> other radius server.
>
> actually my radius server is authenticating a WiFi captive portal
> and is prosying requests upon username@domainname
>
> user attributes are stripped from domain and sent to proper radius server
>
> my question is how much is risky to have user-passsword attribute
> travellign across
> the network ? is the encryption applyed to the user-password strong
> enough ?
Some analysis in the document cited below, I can't comment on the
quality of the analysis or it's conclusions, perhaps others might.
An Analysis of the RADIUS Authentication Protocol
http://www.untruth.org/~josh/security/radius/radius-auth.html
--
John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com>
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