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Re: encrypting pppd?

To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "VaX#n8" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: encrypting pppd?
From: [email protected] (Adamsc)
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 96 20:33:51 -0700
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <[email protected]>
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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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