On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:08 PM, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:06 PM, mike smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It'd be storing the hashed user/pw that gets sent off for authentication,
>> or it should.   Then when you change your pw on the domain, the hash no
>> longer works.  Insecure if anyone else touches your computer, and you can't
>>  make that assumption in a work environment?
>>
>
> See my next post on the thread. DSAPI is the issue - or rather - whoever
> designed it didn't consider that your password might get changed at places
> other than on your local PC. Fail.
>
> David.
>

I really wouldn't want something like DPAPI to be able to work across
multiple machines.  The idea is what is the fail.  Hooking a pw change?
 YUK!

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