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NTLMSSP

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 26, 2020
Entity authorityQ6955474 ↗
Source-derived summary

NTLMSSP (NT LAN Manager (NTLM) Security Support Provider) is a binary messaging protocol used by the Microsoft Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) to facilitate NTLM challenge-response authentication and to negotiate integrity and confidentiality options. NTLMSSP is used wherever SSPI authentication is used including Server Message Block / CIFS extended security authentication, HTTP Negotiate authentication (e.g. IIS with IWA turned on) and MSRPC services.

The NTLMSSP and NTLM challenge-response protocol have been documented in Microsoft's Open Protocol Specification.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 77-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, NTLMSSP, Open-knowledge and entry is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “NTLMSSP” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.