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Mutual authentication - probably not

According to this article, the LEAP is equivalent to challenge-response authentication where the authentication server sends a challenge, the client encrypts it in some way and returns the result. This way, the authentication server is not authenticated to the client. Paluchpeter 17:18, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]