an advantage.) It does introduce a significant weakness if the LM hash
is used. Additionally, the format of the failure packet potentially
gives information to an attacker. The weakness of the LM hash is partly
-address in RFC 2433, which deprecates its use.
+addressed in RFC 2433, which deprecates its use.
MS-CHAPv2 adds 2 benefits to MS-CHAP. (1) The LM hash is no longer
used. (2) Mutual authentication is required. Note that the mutual
You'll see these in your pppd log as a line similar to:
- Remote message: No dialin permission
+ Remote message: E=649 No dialin permission
Previously, pppd would log this as: