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The following page has been changed by OlegKalnichevski: http://wiki.apache.org/HttpComponents/FrequentlyAskedNTLMQuestions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NTLM is a proprietary protocol conceived by Microsoft. It can be used, among other things, to authenticate against Microsoft HTTP servers and - proxies. There is no official, publicly available, complete documentation of the protocol. - Most of the information that can be found on the internet had to be - gathered through reverse engineering. + proxies. Until recently there was no official, publicly available, complete + documentation of the protocol. Microsoft published + [http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/e/6/ae6e4142-aa58-45c6-8dcf-a657e5900cd3/%5BMS-NLMP%5D.pdf MS-NLMP] + and + [http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/e/6/ae6e4142-aa58-45c6-8dcf-a657e5900cd3/%5BMS-NTHT%5D.pdf MS-NTHT] + specifications in February 2008 as a part of its + [http://www.microsoft.com/interop/principles/default.mspx Interoperability Principles] initiative. This, + at least, theoretically, opens up a possibility for an ASLv2 licensed implementation of the NTLM authentication + scheme. + There are two versions of the NTLM protocol, commonly referred to as NTLMv1 (version 1) and NTLMv2 (version 2). There's also a stripped-down version of NTLMv2 called LMv2 mentioned --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
