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Key Management Service    back to top

Digital signatures uniquely identify the transmitted package as originating from the party possessing the key that goes with the public key.  Signatures are validated by a trusted certificate authority that vouches for its authenticity.

The certificate contains the public key of the key holder, the date of expiration and  detailed information about the holder of the key.  The certificate can also be associated with extensible set of data fields much like the ACL's associated with NTFS security permissions.  They specify group membership and object permissions.

PKI Suite   back to top

Windows 2000 PKI Standards

Standard Description
Authenticode Digital signatures that verify software origin, authenticity, and integrity.
Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Certificates that have been compromised.
IP Security (IPSec) Encryption of IP
Smart Card ISO standards
Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos Authentication using Kerberos 5
Public Key Cryptography standards Message standards and formats
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) HTTPS
Server Gateway Cryptography (SGC) 128 bit session key and authorized CA
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implemented along with SSL
Public Key Infrastructure IETF draft for interoperable PKI

The above components set standards for the following:
 

User authentication with smart cards, Authenticode, Security Context Management, DES hardware (encryption algorithms), and Encryption File Service (EFS)

 

Internet Information Services Security     back to top

Access Type Description When to Use
Anonymous Default

Access by IUSER_[computername] account

Member of guest group.
Public, low risk websites

Within an intranet

Basic Authentication Requires username and password to access

Not very secure--credentials are encoded using UUEncoding, easy to crack

Low security, non Windows

No browser support

Extranet--security necessary but data not confidential

Digest Authentication Same as Basic, but requires Windows 2000 and IE 5.0

Security credentials are hashed.

Security needed, data sensitive.
Integrated Authentication Most secure, packets are encrypted.

Passwords are not exchanged.

Access is transparent

Windows 2000 domains using IE

Requesting services from non Windows 2000 system.

If you are using Anonymous access combined with other forms, anonymous is attempted first.

Access permissions are configured in the IIS console:  Read, Write, Execute (run scripts)

You can combine NTFS and IIS permissions on specific folders or files within the web root.  (Inetpub\wwwroot by default)