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Chap is also A man or boy; a fellow. (http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/c/c0243000.html)plus it has other meanings toohi— Precedingunsigned comment added by86.21.100.3 (talk)16:48, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

From the description of the protocol, it would appear that no secret information such as passwords are needed! I would guess that this line:

"2. The peer responds with a value calculated using a one-way hash function, such as MD5."

should mention that the message sent by the server and the password are both inputs to the hash function in some way? --Birkett09:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Birkett, you should rephrase the sentence as "The peer responds with a value calculated using a one-way hash function based on the shared secret. [Makan]

I agree too. It is not clear otherwise why anyone else cannot compute an MD5 hash, if no shared secret is required. [Siddharth]

Question : How is the shared secret shared in the first place ? ie how is CHAP installed on a new computer. At some stage the shared secret needs to pass through the public domain from server to client. Could how this happens be explained here ? MAR 2007 <MJ>

CHAP is used in PPP, main usage of PPP is DSL with PPPoE. The "secret" is (in this case) usally transfered with a classical written letter. The server should receive your identity with the next update (or should poll a db/ldap/...)—Precedingunsigned comment added by131.159.4.197 (talk)14:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A shared secret key is often called a "Pre-Shared Key" (PSK), in terms that both parts previously agree on a common secret, and share it off-band.Zekkerj (talk)05:14, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please move toChallenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.

{{Requested move/dated|Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol}}

Challenge-handshake authentication protocol →Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol –I moved this page fromCHAP, as it doesn't take much imagination to suppose that something else might have the same acronym.--KQ23:41, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also, this page is linked to fromPassword Authentication Protocol and nowhere else.--KQ

The capitalization change seems uncontroversial. I've asked for the redirect to be deleted so that the move can be made.--Kotniski (talk)11:36, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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