NODE 1178a54fRe: encrypting pppd?
Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:53:39 +0800
On Sun, 06 Oct 1996 04:18:04 -0500, VaX#n8 wrote:
>Thinking about it a bit more, if you only encrypt, say, telnet
>then you've got a pretty predictable plaintext stream. If you
>encrypt the entire link level properly then it might be much harder
>to isolate the nonvariant bits of the protocols since the port and
>that kind of header info is not available to the attacker at that
>level.
What about predictabilities in the PPP datastream?
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NODE d808f823Re: encrypting pppd?
VaX#n8 <vax@linkdead.paranoia.com>Wed, 9 Oct 1996 03:10:19 +0800
In message <19961007204519812.AAA220@GIGANTE>, Adamsc writes:
>>If you encrypt the entire link level properly then ...
>What about predictabilities in the PPP datastream?
They exist.