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| | PAP - PAcket-level Procedure, Password Authentication Protocol, Printer Access Protocol, Push Access Protocol |
 | | PAP is the most basic form of authentication for logging into a network. |
 | | A user's name and password are transmitted over a network and compared to a table of name-password pairs.Typically, the passwords stored in the table are encrypted. |
 | | Short for Password Authentication Protocol, the most basic form of authentication, in which a user's name and password are transmitted over a network "in the clear" (that is, in an unencrypted form) and compared to a table of name-password pairs. |
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