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CHAP

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Initiators can be required to authenticate to an iSCSI target with this method; reverse CHAP makes it mutual.

Also called Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.

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In the Ultra Transcenders books

Each book explains CHAP in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

iSCSI
Protocol that carries block storage over TCP on port 3260. When recovering files, Azure Backup's script mounts recovery point disks as local volumes using it.

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