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Secure Password Authentication (SPA)
Does "James" support Microsoft Secure Password Authentication (SPA/AUTH MSN)
for SMTP (smtp.email.msn.com) communication -
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/28/1436/66154?
If not, do you know of any Java based application that does?
Sincerely,
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RE: Secure Password Authentication (SPA)
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
Brent,
> Does "James" support Microsoft Secure Password Authentication
> (SPA/AUTH MSN) for SMTP
As noted by the article you referenced,
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/28/1436/66154, the "Secure Password
Authentication (SPA) is a feature provided by Microsoft's e-mail servers
(and subsequently implemented in its e-mail clients) as a secure means of
authenticating e-mail traffic (POP3, SMTP, and IMAP). This document
describes the Microsoft-proprietary protocol that operates via the SMTP AUTH
interface defined by RFC 2554."
Although it operates as a standard RFC 2554 extension to the standard SMTP
protocol described by RFC 2821, Microsoft SPA itself is a
"Microsoft-proprietary protocol".
Please review in detail the new Microsoft Communications Protocol Program,
which you can find at
http://members.microsoft.com/consent/Info/default.aspx. It appears that
Microsoft is taking to licensing the wire-level protocols that they use as a
solution to the problem of Open Source software and competitive
implementations. According to Microsoft's site, implementing any of
Microsoft's licensed protocols, whether extensions to standard public
protocols or Microsoft-originated protocols, will require the payment of a
licensing fee.
--- Noel
-----Original Message-----
From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:sergek@lokitech.com]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 15:24
To: James Users List
Subject: Re: Secure Password Authentication (SPA)
I'm not sure whether this helps that specific Microsoft protocol, but
http://jcifs.samba.org has a Java library that can help Java
applications integrate with Window-domain logins (NTLM). Looking at the
link you sent briefly, it seems like NTLM is the basis of SPA, so then
in theory jCIFS should be able to help.
--
Serge Knystautas
President
Lokitech >> software . strategy . design >> http://www.lokitech.com
p. 301.656.5501
e. sergek@lokitech.com
Spencer, Brent wrote:
> Does "James" support Microsoft Secure Password Authentication (SPA/AUTH
MSN)
> for SMTP (smtp.email.msn.com) communication -
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/28/1436/66154?
>
> If not, do you know of any Java based application that does?
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Re: Secure Password Authentication (SPA)
Posted by Serge Knystautas <se...@lokitech.com>.
I'm not sure whether this helps that specific Microsoft protocol, but
http://jcifs.samba.org has a Java library that can help Java
applications integrate with Window-domain logins (NTLM). Looking at the
link you sent briefly, it seems like NTLM is the basis of SPA, so then
in theory jCIFS should be able to help.
--
Serge Knystautas
President
Lokitech >> software . strategy . design >> http://www.lokitech.com
p. 301.656.5501
e. sergek@lokitech.com
Spencer, Brent wrote:
> Does "James" support Microsoft Secure Password Authentication (SPA/AUTH MSN)
> for SMTP (smtp.email.msn.com) communication -
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/28/1436/66154?
>
> If not, do you know of any Java based application that does?
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