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Sunday, May 20, 2007 9:10 PM

Can't I trust the Postal Service? Part 1 - the crypto.

The Security MVPs have a private mailing list on which we gather to share expertise or our interesting findings - the following was raised by an MVP, and very much interested me, on a number of levels: The US Postal Service has a web service (as well...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:30 PM

EFS in a domain expires after three years

I enjoyed the research for writing my article on EFS , for the Technet Security Newsletter , but there's always something experience will teach you. Here's an issue I experienced just last week, with EFS. It shouldn't have been a surprise, given what...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:30 PM

Certificate Manager does not require administrator access.

When you manage your personal certificates in Windows, the tool to use is Certificate Manager - you can access it either by running " certmgr.msc " to access your own personal certificate store, or by running MMC, the Microsoft Management Console, and...
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:09 AM

ChangePassword versus SetPassword

Writing a piece of code last night, I was struck by the thought that many developers I've worked with would not know why I use a ChangePassword function, instead of a SetPassword function. The difference in use is simple - SetPassword requires one password...
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