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13 PPP Security Features Ariel Eizenberg arielez@cs.huji.ac.il Contents Introduction Authentication Encryption Introduction PPP provides two means for establishing security Authentication Encryption Both methods are not mandatory Authentication PPP support several authentication protocols. The authentication is asymmetric In each authentication “transaction”, one peer is master and the other is the slave To authentication both sides, the authentication algorithm is ran twice, once in each direction. The authentication algorithm may differ between the two directions. Algorithm Selection Each