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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hello,

> What we really need to do, is make Android, Linux, MACOS and iOS stop
> supporting GTC. Since Windows does not support GTC. All wireless
> networks that needs to support Windows clients, must support MSCHAPV2.
> Therefor all 802.1x wireless networks that supports username:password
> logins supports MSCHAPv2. GTC is simply not needed.

GTC is not the problem. Once you have an NTHasHash from MS-CHAPv2 you
can recover the plaintext password with relative ease these days. A few
hours worth of cloud computing power get you there. So it's *slightly*
better than PAP or GTC, but don't base any serious security assumption
on it.

The thing we have to achieve is that everybody does configure proper
server settings, and it becomes impossible for an attacker to get any
content from the protected channel inside TLS because his bogus
certificate will be rejected.

Ideally, supplicants would flat out *refuse to connect at all* unless
given sufficient config information by the user or onboarding tool
(saying something equivalent to "I'm sorry, I can't let you do that,
Dave" when the user taps "Connect" without the necessary info).

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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