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  1. The roadwarrior <b>carol</b> sets up a connection to gateway <b>moon</b>.
  2. <b>carol</b> uses the <i>Extensible Authentication Protocol</i>
  3. in association with an <i>MD5</i> challenge and response protocol
  4. (<b>EAP-MD5</b>) to authenticate against the gateway. The EAP identity and password
  5. of the user is kept in <b>ipsec.secrets</b> on the gateway <b>moon</b> and
  6. is entered interactively on the client <b>carol</b> using the command
  7. <b>ipsec stroke user-creds home carol "Ar3etTnp"</b>.
  8. Gateway <b>moon</b> additionally uses an <b>RSA signature</b> to authenticate itself
  9. against <b>carol</b>.