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Re: Microsoft passport
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Monroe)
Sun Sep 12 19:21:51 1999
From: "Chris Monroe" <cmonroe@rez.com>
To: "Justin F Chapweske" <chapwesk@zeus.ulysses.net>, <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:02:12 -0700
M$ Passport seems to be interwoven w/ the (new) M$ Wallet feature.
Passport's database design is based on SQL Server for WinNT (for=20
recording personal, financial and tax info). From what I've been able=20
to find on this subject, it appears that the CryptoAPI handles most of
the authentication, etc -- however, I could be wrong (and please=20
correct me if I am!!).
