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MS-CHAPv2 provides mutual authentication between peers by piggybacking a peer challenge on the Response packet and an authenticator response on the Success packet. |
MS-CHAPv2 provides mutual authentication between peers by piggybacking a peer challenge on the Response packet and an authenticator response on the Success packet. |
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Several weaknesses have been found in MS-CHAPv2, some of which severely reduce the complexity of brute-force attacks making them feasible with modern hardware.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.schneier.com/paper-pptpv2.pdf |title=Cryptanalysis of Microsoft's PPTP Authentication Extensions (MS-CHAPv2) |first1=Bruce |last1=Schneier |authorlink1=Bruce Schneier |author2=Mudge |first3=David |last3=Wagner |website=schneier.com |date=19 October 1999 |format=[[PDF]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://penguin-breeder.org/pptp/download/pptp_mschapv2.pdf |title=Exploiting known security holes in Microsoft's PPTP Authentication Extensions (MS-CHAPv2) |first=Jochen |last=Eisinger |date=23 July 2001 |website=penguin-breeder.org}}</ref> |
Several weaknesses have been found in MS-CHAPv2, some of which severely reduce the complexity of brute-force attacks making them feasible with modern hardware.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.schneier.com/paper-pptpv2.pdf |title=Cryptanalysis of Microsoft's PPTP Authentication Extensions (MS-CHAPv2) |first1=Bruce |last1=Schneier |authorlink1=Bruce Schneier |author2=Mudge |first3=David |last3=Wagner |website=schneier.com |date=19 October 1999 |format=[[PDF]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://penguin-breeder.org/pptp/download/pptp_mschapv2.pdf |title=Exploiting known security holes in Microsoft's PPTP Authentication Extensions (MS-CHAPv2) |first=Jochen |last=Eisinger |date=23 July 2001 |website=penguin-breeder.org}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 07:57, 4 July 2016
MS-CHAP is the Microsoft version of the Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol, CHAP. The protocol exists in two versions, MS-CHAPv1 (defined in RFC 2433) and MS-CHAPv2 (defined in RFC 2759). MS-CHAPv2 was introduced with Windows NT 4.0 SP4 and was added to Windows 98 in the "Windows 98 Dial-Up Networking Security Upgrade Release"[1] and Windows 95 in the "Dial Up Networking 1.3 Performance & Security Update for MS Windows 95" upgrade. Windows Vista dropped support for MS-CHAPv1.
MS-CHAP is used as one authentication option in Microsoft's implementation of the PPTP protocol for virtual private networks. It is also used as an authentication option with RADIUS[2] servers which are used for WiFi security using the WPA-Enterprise protocol. It is further used as the main authentication option of the Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP).
Compared with CHAP,[3] MS-CHAP:[4][5]
- is enabled by negotiating CHAP Algorithm 0x80 (0x81 for MS-CHAPv2) in LCP option 3, Authentication Protocol
- provides an authenticator-controlled password change mechanism
- provides an authenticator-controlled authentication retry mechanism
- defines failure codes returned in the Failure packet message field
MS-CHAPv2 provides mutual authentication between peers by piggybacking a peer challenge on the Response packet and an authenticator response on the Success packet.
Cryptanalysis
Several weaknesses have been found in MS-CHAPv2, some of which severely reduce the complexity of brute-force attacks making them feasible with modern hardware.[6][7]
MS-CHAP and MS-CHAPv2 uses the same weak 56-bit DES encryption as NTLMv1 to encrypt the NTLM password hash. 56-bit encryption had been well known as weak for years, but CloudCracker now provides a service targeted at cracking this weak DES encryption.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "Windows 98 Dial-Up Networking Security Upgrade Release Notes (August 1998)". Support. Microsoft. August 1998.
- ^ Microsoft Vendor-specific RADIUS Attributes. doi:10.17487/RFC2548. RFC 2548.
- ^ PPP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP). doi:10.17487/RFC1994. RFC 1994.
- ^ Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions. doi:10.17487/RFC2433. RFC 2433.
- ^ Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions, Version 2. doi:10.17487/RFC2759. RFC 2759.
- ^ Schneier, Bruce; Mudge; Wagner, David (19 October 1999). "Cryptanalysis of Microsoft's PPTP Authentication Extensions (MS-CHAPv2)" (PDF). schneier.com.
- ^ Eisinger, Jochen (23 July 2001). "Exploiting known security holes in Microsoft's PPTP Authentication Extensions (MS-CHAPv2)" (PDF). penguin-breeder.org.
- ^ Marlinspike, Moxie; Hulton, David (29 July 2012). "Divide and Conquer: Cracking MS-CHAPv2 with a 100% success rate". Cloud Cracler.
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