SSPI
The Microsoft Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) is the well-defined common API for obtaining integrated security services for authentication, message integrity, message privacy, and security quality of service for any distributed application protocol. Application protocol designers can take advantage of this interface to obtain different security services without modification to the protocol itself.
The SSPI provides an abstraction layer between application-level protocols and security protocols. The following are some of the ways to use SSPI services:
Traditional socket-based applications can call SSPI routines directly and implement the application protocol that carries SSPI security-related data, using request and response messages. ...
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