[Httpcomponents Wiki] Update of "FrequentlyAskedNTLMQuestions" by OlegKalnichevski

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  NTLM is a proprietary protocol conceived by Microsoft. It can be used,
  among other things, to authenticate against Microsoft HTTP servers and
- proxies. There is no official, publicly available, complete documentation of the protocol.
- Most of the information that can be found on the internet had to be
- gathered through reverse engineering.
+ proxies. Until recently there was no official, publicly available, complete 
+ documentation of the protocol. Microsoft published 
+ [http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/e/6/ae6e4142-aa58-45c6-8dcf-a657e5900cd3/%5BMS-NLMP%5D.pdf MS-NLMP]
+ and 
+ [http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/e/6/ae6e4142-aa58-45c6-8dcf-a657e5900cd3/%5BMS-NTHT%5D.pdf MS-NTHT] 
+ specifications in February 2008 as a part of its 
+ [http://www.microsoft.com/interop/principles/default.mspx Interoperability Principles] initiative. This, 
+ at least, theoretically, opens up a possibility for an ASLv2 licensed implementation of the NTLM authentication
+ scheme. 
+ 
  There are two versions of the NTLM protocol, commonly
  referred to as NTLMv1 (version 1) and NTLMv2 (version 2).
  There's also a stripped-down version of NTLMv2 called LMv2 mentioned

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