More Headaches from Vista Security

Michael Cooney writes to tell us Windows Vista may have some serious headaches in store for corporate users with third-party authentication systems like VPNs. From the article: "ISVs say rewriting their code for the new architecture will produce headaches that will extend to their customers that have deployed strong authentication such as biometrics or tokens, enterprise single sign-on and a number of other systems integrated with the Windows authentication architecture."

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It had to fixed anyway...

[tereshchenko]

The way "Windows authentication architecture" is extended in XP is very limiting - essentially you write DLL (so called GINA) that replaces part of XP log-in system and this DLL is responsible for retrieval of users credentials for Windows. However it was possible to have only single GINA installed at the same time, so if you wanted to have two security products installed - you were in trouble.

Now Vista will support new architecture for security providers with possibility of multiple providers registered at the same time. A definite improvement for users.

In fact the new architecture is not THAT different from the previous one, so the entire article is moot. Then again, it's SlashDot...