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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 | 23 Comments
Filed under Active Directory, authentication, BitLocker, configuration, encryption, group policy, IPsec, networking, Windows Vista, NAP, SSL/HTTPS, VPN, TechEd
Microsoft IPsec diagnostic tool: IPsec is a wonderful technology for identifying computers and securing the exchange of data between them. I've written and spoken extensively about in the past. It is, however, a bit of a challenge to configure, especially if you're newly learning about Read More...
Posted 01 February 08 03:39 by Steve Riley | 2 Comments
Filed under authentication, configuration, encryption, IPsec, networking
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 | 12 Comments
Filed under configuration, encryption, group policy, Windows Vista, SSL/HTTPS
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 | 14 Comments
Filed under BitLocker, configuration, encryption, physical security, protection, Windows Vista