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2017 2

  1. SMB 2 and SMB 3 security in Windows 10: the anatomy of signing and cryptographic keys
  2. How Kerberos user-to-user authentication works?

2016 1

  1. Verifying STUN Message Integrity for Lync and Skype for Business ICE Traffic

2015 5

  1. OpenXML Styles 101 - Understanding Table Style Conditional Formatting
  2. OpenXML Styles 101 - Creating Custom Styles and Understanding Style Inheritance
  3. MS-OXCFXICS - How to parse the FastTransfer Stream
  4. SMB 3.1.1 Encryption in Windows 10
  5. SMB 3.1.1 Pre-authentication integrity in Windows 10

2014 2

  1. MS-PST - Parsing a Heap-on-Node Property Context Block
  2. Extended DFS referral for SMB 3

2013 13

  1. Message Analyzer
  2. GUIDs and Endianness: {Endi-an-ne-ssInGUID} OR idnE-na-en-ssInGUID?
  3. [MS-RDPEUDP] : Glance at TLS/DTLS handshake packets.
  4. Extracting a PowerPoint VBA Macro
  5. RDPESC parser modification
  6. PowerShell script for finding Microsoft Office legacy files
  7. SMB 2.x and SMB 3.0 Timeouts in Windows
  8. NTLM and Channel Binding Hash (aka Extended Protection for Authentication)
  9. CIFS and SMB Timeouts in Windows
  10. Rich Text Format (RTF) and Watermarks
  11. How to manually decode an ActiveSync WBXML stream
  12. Determining Office Binary File Format Types
  13. Unencrypted MS-EVEN6 Traffic

2012 7

  1. Encryption in SMB 3.0: A protocol perspective
  2. Hitchhiker’s Guide to Debugging RDP protocols: Part 2
  3. SMB3 Secure Dialect Negotiation
  4. MS-FSU: A look from the Windows interface
  5. Encryption in SMB3
  6. Hitchhiker’s Guide to Debugging RDP protocols: Part 1 [MS-RDPEUSB]
  7. MS-PST - How to decode data pages using Permutative Decoding.

2011 26

  1. Encryption Negotiation in RDP connection
  2. How to use the presetShapeDefinitions.xml file and fun with DrawingML.
  3. Password encryption in establishing a remote assistance session of type 1
  4. Customizing In-Box Netmon Parsers. How to edit and deploy updated Netmon Parsers.
  5. MS-OXOCAL - How to calculate the FirstDateTime for monthly and yearly recurring appointments for the Hebrew calendar.
  6. BFFValidator Tool Goes Public
  7. A quick look at the new negotiation mechanism (NegoEx) used with SPNEGO in Windows 7
  8. Free/Busy Data in Exchange
  9. EMF File Overview
  10. This is how we troubleshoot Windows interoperability issues in the Open Specifications support team
  11. Authentication 101
  12. Incremental Change Synchronization
  13. .MSG File Format, Rights Managed Email Message (Part 3)
  14. Exploring the CFB File Format 9
  15. Exchange ActiveSync Provisioning
  16. Exploring the CFB File Format 8
  17. Exploring the CFB File Format 7
  18. Troubleshooting with the Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor (or, the case of the mysterious Inbox sync)
  19. Windows Configurations for Kerberos Supported Encryption Type
  20. Decrypting SSTP traffic with Netmon and NMDecrypt
  21. An Exploration of CFB using Python 6
  22. Implementing the Algorithm for Deriving Password and encrypting Connection String in MS-RAIOP
  23. Notes on Kerberos kvno in Windows RODC environment
  24. RemoteFX RLGR3 decoding
  25. An Exploration of CFB 5
  26. MS-PST - The Relationship Between Nodes and Blocks

2010 15

  1. OOXML SmartArt Pie Chart Construction
  2. MS-PST - How to Navigate the Node BTree
  3. Encryption Type Selection in Kerberos Exchanges
  4. NTLM Terminology: MS-NLMP vs. https://davenport.sourceforge.net/ntlm.html
  5. Notes on sparse files and file sharing
  6. Common mistakes when reading TS_ICON_INFO in [MS-RDPERP]
  7. .MSG File Format, Rights Managed Email Message (Part 2)
  8. RDP 6.0 Bulk Decompression Walkthrough
  9. RDP 6.0 Bulk Compressing Data Walkthrough
  10. NTLM V1… no, excuse me… NTLM V2… oh, no, you were right… it’s V1…
  11. ActiveSync III
  12. NTLM keys and sundry stuff
  13. About the ACCESS_MASK Structure
  14. Understanding the minimum set of DIT elements required by the first DC using MS-ADTS
  15. Inside look at one of the domain controller promotion process using DCPromo

2009 33

  1. Verifying the server signature in Kerberos Privilege Account Certificate
  2. Details of three TIFF Tag extensions that Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) software may write into the TIFF files it generates
  3. Reflecting on another successful Interoperability Lab event
  4. To KVNO or not to KVNO, what is the version!?
  5. .MSG File Format (Part 1)
  6. Using Openssl to implement Crypto Operations in Netlogon Remote Protocol
  7. Beginning with the PowerPoint Document Stream
  8. A successful story of an Interoperability Lab event
  9. More ActiveSync
  10. Exploring the Compound File Binary Format (part deux)
  11. An ActiveSync Primer
  12. msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes – Episode 1 - Computer accounts
  13. Parsing Pictures in a PowerPoint binary file
  14. Understanding security descriptor defaulting rules for Active Directory objects
  15. Active Directory Technical Specification Control Access Rights Concordance
  16. Stronger Keys for Netlogon Remote Protocol in Windows 7
  17. S4U_DELEGATION_INFO and Constrained Delegation
  18. Exploring the Compound File Binary Format
  19. Overview of Protected Office Open XML Documents
  20. Understanding unique attributes in Active Directory
  21. NegTokenInit2
  22. Using the Windows Server Protocols documentation set to better understand the Active Directory Schema
  23. SMB 2.1 Multi-Credit (Large MTU) Operations
  24. PEAP Phase 2 encapsulation examples for a client authenticating with MS-CHAPv2
  25. mechListMIC token
  26. Client caching features: Oplock vs. Lease
  27. Adventures in Debugging – A protocols perspective
  28. RC4 CryptoAPI Encryption Password Verification
  29. NTLM Overview
  30. Understanding Microsoft Kerberos PAC Validation
  31. Enabling push subscriptions in winrm where Windows 2003 R2 server is acting as an event collector
  32. SMB Maximum Transmit Buffer Size and Performance Tuning
  33. Welcome to Open Specification Support Team Blog!!