significantly increases your network's password security. Authentication Protocols Win2K and later can use four authentication protocols: LAN Manager, NTLM, NTLMv2, and Kerberos. LAN Manager was the original protocol, and if LAN Manager authentication traffic is sniffed off the network, compromising the password is trivial. Microsoft released the NTLM protocol with NT, but that protocol was later found to contain flaws. Microsoft then developed NTLMv2 for Win2K. That version has withstood the test of time…
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