Clarification of when authentication is used

Gary Scott Malkin <gmalkin@xylogics.com> Tue, 02 August 1994 20:27 UTC

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From: Gary Scott Malkin <gmalkin@xylogics.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 1994 16:27:55 -0400
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In-Reply-To: Jeffrey C Honig's message of Tue, 02 Aug 1994 15:53:12 -0400 <199408021953.PAA28181@mitchell.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Clarification of when authentication is used

> My implementation of RIP assumed that both RIP REQUESTs and RESPONSEs
> would need to be authenticated.  With the MD5 work it only seems to
> make sense to authenticate RESPONSEs.

That is how my implementation works also.  As you said, one needs to
prevent the clear-text password from escaping in a query.  For the
MD5, we could go either way.

Fred, does OSPF handle this?  We should do it the same way.  The
clarification need only be in the MD5 extension document though; I
don't think we need to reopen the RIP-2 I-D now.

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Clarification of when authentication is used Jeffrey C Honig
Clarification of when authentication is used Gary Scott Malkin
Re: Clarification of when authentication is used Fred Baker
Clarification of when authentication is used Gary Scott Malkin
Re: Clarification of when authentication is used Fred Baker
Clarification of when authentication is used Gary Scott Malkin
Re: Clarification of when authentication is used Fred Baker