Talk:Challenge-handshake authentication protocol

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I moved this page from CHAP, as it doesn't take much imagination to suppose that something else might have the same acronym. --KQ

Also, this page is linked to from Password Authentication Protocol and nowhere else. --KQ

[edit] This is wrong

Chap is also A man or boy; a fellow. (http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/c/c0243000.html) plus it has other meanings too

[edit] Secret information

From the description of the protocol, it would appear that no secret information such as passwords are needed! I would guess that this line:

"2. The peer responds with a value calculated using a one-way hash function, such as MD5."

should mention that the message sent by the server and the password are both inputs to the hash function in some way? --Birkett 09:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC)