NT MD4 password check fails

Gerald Carter cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Tue Jan 26 19:27:04 GMT 1999


Dejan Ilic wrote:
> 
> The http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/Vrdrupd.exe
> will make the 95 boxes speak the NT-SP3 dialect of SMB. Does this mean
> that Win95 will use MD4 passwords ?

No.  I think this patch only makes Win95 servers refuse 
to downgrade to plain text passwords if the server replies 
in the netgotiate protocol repsonse that it doesn't 
support password encryption.




jerry
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