In one of my previous blog( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/openspecification/archive/2010/11/17/encryption-type-selection-in-kerberos-exchanges.aspx ) , I have talked about how the encryption types of the various encrypted parts of the Kerberos exchanges are...

Intro I have recently received some inquiries about [MS-SSTP] . I must admit that I had to review most of the information about this “fairly” newly introduced VPN protocol (it was first shipped with Windows Vista) since I hadn’t...

Directory Entries The general concept of a CFB File is the containment of a hierarchical structure of storages and streams. These are analogous to directories and files in the traditional FAT file system used in the DOS and Windows Operating Systems...

In Microsoft Open Protocol documents, there are many algorithms that involve with crypto operations in some particular ways. Sometimes the protocol documents also provide specific protocol examples that include the initial input, the intermediate results...

This blog talks about key version number (kvno) in a read-only domain controller (RODC) environment. A previous blog introduced kvno in general. Here, I look at specifics in RODC environment. For a refresher, the kvno is a field of the EncryptedData...