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
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
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)