What Happens When you Type Your Password into Windows? Published Sep 9, 2020 | Posted in Windows Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you type your password into the Windows logon screen and hit enter? Read Article About Steve Syfuhs Steve Syfuhs is a developer on the Windows Authentication team at Microsoft. Read More about Steve Mastodon github.com/SteveSyfuhs
Kerberos FAST Armoring Published Jan 16, 2021 FAST Armoring is a Kerberos extension intended to improve the security of the Kerberos protocol. Read Article | Kerberos
How Windows Defender Credential Guard Works Published Dec 1, 2020 Have you ever wondered how Credential Guard works? Read Article | Windows
Windows and Domain Trusts Published Nov 24, 2020 Domain trusts are complicated. Here's how they work. Read Article | Windows
How Windows Single Sign-On Works Published Nov 18, 2020 Have you ever wondered how Windows does Single Sign-on? Read Article | Windows
Windows Insider Podcast: Ctrl+Alt+Authenticate Published Nov 11, 2020 I was interviewed by Jason Howard from the Windows Insider team and we talked about Windows Authentication and stuff. Read Article | Authentication
How Azure AD Windows Sign-in Works Published Sep 22, 2020 Let's talk Azure AD join and what that means to a Windows device. What's it mean to be joined to something? Read Article | Kerberos
Kerberos Explained in a Little Too Much Detail Published Sep 15, 2020 Kerberos is an authenticated key agreement protocol based on the Needham-Schroeder protocol. That's too complicated -- let's break it down a little. Read Article | Kerberos
How Authentication Works when you use Remote Desktop Published Sep 9, 2020 Have you ever wondered how authentication works for things like Remote Desktop? Read Article | Windows
KDC Proxy for Remote Access Published May 27, 2020 There's a little known feature in Windows called the KDC Proxy that lets clients communicate with KDC servers over an HTTPS channel instead of TCP. Read Article | Authentication
Why is Kerberos Terrible? Published Dec 31, 2018 Tl;dr; It’s really not. As we build new protocols we should remember all the things we got right with Kerberos and account for all the things we got wrong. Read Article | Authentication
Porting Kerberos.NET to .NET Core Published Aug 11, 2017 How I ported Kerberos.NET to .NET Core. Read Article | .NET
Active Directory Claims and Kerberos.NET Published Jul 29, 2017 Kerberos.NET now supports claims presented by Active Directory. Read Article | .NET
On Adding AES Support to Kerberos.NET Published Jul 10, 2017 The AES cryptographic algorithm was added to the Kerberos.NET library. Read Article | .NET
A look at Azure AD Single Sign-On Published Mar 19, 2017 Seamless Single Sign-On lets you sign in to Azure AD using Kerberos. Here's how it works. Read Article | Active Directory