Talk:Integrated Windows Authentication

This artical is completely wrong. NTLM was not renamed to IWA. NTLM should not redirect here.

IWA is a blanket term used by Microsoft products to describe their current authentication framework based on Kerberos, NTLM, and more commonly SPNEGO which is a pseudo-mechanism used to negotiate either Kerberos or NTLM. IWA is not a standard or protocol (there is no mention of IWA in any IETF drafts, RFCs, or other standards documents). It's a marketing term (I don't mean this in a condesending way, it's actually quite smart to replace all user documentation and administrative dialogs with a more accessible term as describing Kerberos, NTLM, and SPENGO independantly would be rather confusing I imagine). The NTLM and Kerberos and SPNEGO articals should be fleshed out on their own. This page should be a very breif description with clear links to the Kerberos, NTLM, and SPENGO pages. One might also mention SSPI which is the programming interface one would use to perform a number of security related services including IWA.

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Can someone knowledgable include information about how secure IWA is considered. Also information about whether there are any differences between NTLM and IWA (if they are just the same, then that should be made clear to the reader). --Gosub 13:50, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The links look marginal. Suggest a cleanup is required. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 61.9.204.42 (talk • contribs) 09:02, 29 May 2006 (UTC)