Password Authentication Protocol: Difference between revisions

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Authentication is a process of validating a user, accessing the resources. Almost all [[Network operating system]] remote servers support PAP.

PAP transmits unencrypted [[ASCII]] passwords over the network and is therefore considered insecure,. itIt is used as a last resort when the remote server does not support a stronger authentication protocol, like [[Challenge-handshake authentication protocol|CHAP]] or [[Extensible_Authentication_Protocol|EAP]] (while the last is actually a framework).

==Working cycle==

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==See also==

* CHAP - [[Challenge-handshake authentication protocol]]

* EAP - [[Extensible_Authentication_Protocol]]

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