RIP with MD5 authentication

[Alexander Velkov]

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

correct, my mistake :)

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Baptiste Jonglez <
baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:

> 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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