RIP with MD5 authentication

[Baptiste Jonglez]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 01:59:05PM +0200, Alexander Velkov wrote:
> Hi Ondrej,
> 
> > The first one is RIP request, rest are RIP responses. Quagga apparently do
> > not sign RIP requests. They are optional, so it is not a big problem, but
> > AFAIK they should be signed and verified in the same way as RIP requests.

This should provide some insights (the paragraphs about RIPv1):

  http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/docs/docs-multi/RIP-Authentication.html

> OK. Yes, the whole communication process to be encrypted sounds more
> adequate.

I don't think anything is encrypted here, this is just peer authentication
using a shared secret.
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