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A comment on Microsoft plans to kill off NTLM authentication in Windows 11. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft plans to kill off NTLM authentication in Window... by cryptonector on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:33PM (#37908121)
> It’s an old, old protocol full of 90s crypto mistakes ...

To be fair the same can be said for Kerberos. It's just that Kerberos has kept up with the times more.

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Re:Microsoft plans to kill off NTLM authentication in Window... by canucker2016 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @12:06AM (#37910490)
the weak hashes part is by design - US government design. Exporting software with strong crypto wasn't possible before the late 1990s. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
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