May 2008 - Posts

A discussion of password authentication schemes

I have talked in the past about how passwords for SQL logins are protected in SQL Server (see this post ). I would like to describe this scheme in a more generic way and compare it with the alternative of encrypting the passwords, because I have seen Read More...

Posted 09 May 08 01:45 by lcris | 0 Comments   
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