Deprecating NTLM is Easy and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves Published Oct 4, 2023 | Posted in Featured NTLM has been a problem in Windows for a while now. We're finally killing it, and I'm going to tell you how. 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
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