Pap and CHAP

Question 1

What are authentication protocols?

Answer 1

The authenticate identities, human or devices,

Question 2

What is password authentication protocols

Answer 2

is authentication through password and a clear text protocol, and considered insecure

Question 3

What is CHAP?

Answer 3

the challenge handshake authentication protocol, there’s a authentication request, challenge(random bits), password encrypted is sent, then the password is decrypted, the password stays in the endpoints and not in the wire.

Question 4

What are the CHAP variants?

Answer 4

CHAP is used is windows environments, MS-CHAP is microsoft’s chap implementation, MS-CHAPv2 is mutual authentication and stronger cyptographic keys