X-Git-Url: http://git.silcnet.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fdraft-riikonen-silc-ke-auth-04.nroff;h=a8d57439e49ffb7cd6d665185bb7cdfe07cf7db9;hb=c826b9841053da3f00e2c531b25bb22aa49255d5;hp=6e493f9f2a0008f2012851c8a30f5425a79a1751;hpb=c0d9618972274f56277acab0c124cd30c52d2953;p=silc.git diff --git a/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-ke-auth-04.nroff b/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-ke-auth-04.nroff index 6e493f9f..a8d57439 100644 --- a/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-ke-auth-04.nroff +++ b/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-ke-auth-04.nroff @@ -957,6 +957,11 @@ sent to the sender and the protocol execution fails. This is REQUIRED authentication method to be supported by all SILC implementations. +When password authentication is used it is RECOMMENDED that maximum +amount of padding is applied to the SILC packet. This way it is not +possible to approximate the length of the password from the encrypted +packet. + .ti 0 3.2.2 Public Key Authentication