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Directly connect to your corpnet with IPsec and IPv6: Contrary to popular belief, the rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. Well, ok, no actual rumors, but hey, one can dream, huh? My spring calendar was full of events in Asia and Australia, then TechEd US seemed to suddenly appear out of nowhere! Read More...
Posted 25 June 08 01:55 by Steve Riley | 26 Comments
Filed under Windows Vista, NAP, authentication, TechEd, Active Directory, configuration, VPN, IPsec, networking, BitLocker, encryption, group policy, SSL/HTTPS
Changing the SSL cipher order in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista: Recently, the question of using AES for SSL has come up in the newsgroups and at some conferences. When IE makes an HTTPS connection to a web server, it offers a list of cipher supported cipher suites. The server then selects the first one from the list Read More...
Posted 06 November 07 09:37 by Steve Riley | 13 Comments
Filed under Windows Vista, configuration, encryption, group policy, SSL/HTTPS
The bad guys will use BitLocker, too: Got an email today from a customer asking about how BitLocker will affect the ability of law enforcement to conduct forensic analysis of a protected hard drive. Specifically, the person was asking about any back doors that law enforcement could use to Read More...
Posted 13 July 07 11:03 by Steve Riley | 14 Comments
Filed under Windows Vista, security theater, public policy, BitLocker, encryption
BitLocker command line interface: Last week at TechEd Europe I showed the BitLocker command-line interface. At other TechEds I've mentioned it but didn't show it. The CLI provides full control over BitLocker, including enabling it on any NTFS volume on the system (the Control Panel UI Read More...
Posted 25 November 06 08:39 by Steve Riley | 15 Comments
Filed under Windows Vista, protection, physical security, configuration, BitLocker, encryption