MS IWA - extended protection - SSPI - channel binding

Jeffrey Altman jaltman at secure-endpoints.com
Thu Aug 27 15:26:39 EDT 2009


Markus Moeller wrote:
> I am reading the MS article about IWA and extended protection 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd639324.aspx  and wonder if this 
> affects GSSAPI based applications like Apache with mod_auth_kerb ?  Does 
> this mean MS has added channel bindings to SSPI ?
>
> Unfortunately I don't have Windows 7 to test.
>
> Thank you
> Markus 
You do not need Windows 7.   The change was backported all the way to XP
SP2 and the update was pushed as critical two weeks ago.
When activated GSS-API over TLS will use channel bindings if the
application requests extended protection.

Jeffrey Altman





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