From: Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:53:39 +0800
To: "vax@linkdead.paranoia.com>
Subject: Re: encrypting pppd?
Message-ID: <19961007204519812.AAA220@GIGANTE>
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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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