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Everything about Integrated Windows Authentication
Microsoft authentication protocols
Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) is a term associated with Microsoft products that refers to the SPNEGO, Kerberos, and NTLMSSP authentication protocols with respect to SSPI functionality introduced with Microsoft Windows 2000 and included with later Windows NT-based operating systems. The term is used more commonly for the automatically authenticated connections between Microsoft Internet Information Services, Internet Explorer, and other Active Directory aware applications. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Integrated Windows AuthenticationA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: BibleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Building Authentication Modules Integrating Windows Active Directory with RHEL Systems using PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module)Cited 0 times
- Go sideways: Security Support Provider InterfaceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: NTLMA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
BibleBible · 1200
American FilmAmerican Film Institute · 1975
Computer NetworksAndrew S. Tanenbaum, John David Wetherall · 1981
Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
Pro GitScott Chacon, Ben Straub · 2009
MCTSMarilyn Miller-White · 2009
Web ServicesAnura Guruge · 2004
Microsoft Windows server 2012 inside outWilliam R. Stanek · 2012
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đź”— Related topics
- Security Support Provider Interface Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) is a component of Windows API that performs security-related operations such as authentication. SSPI functions…
- NTLM In a Windows network, NT (New Technology) LAN Manager (NTLM) is a suite of Microsoft security protocols intended to provide authentication, integrity,…
- NTLMSSP NTLMSSP (NT LAN Manager (NTLM) Security Support Provider) is a binary messaging protocol used by the Microsoft Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI)…
- SPNEGO Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO), often pronounced "spenay-go", is a GSSAPI "pseudo mechanism" used by client-server software…
- Simple Authentication and Security Layer Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols. It decouples authentication…
- Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface The Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface (GSSAPI, also GSS-API) is an application programming interface for programs to access security…
- LAN Manager LAN Manager is a discontinued network operating system (NOS) available from multiple vendors and developed by Microsoft in cooperation with 3Com Corporation…
- Single sign-on Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems…