Message Queue Security

Microsoft Windows Message Queuing takes advantage of the various built-in security features of the Windows 2000 operating system. Specifically, Message Queuing uses access control, authentication, encryption, and auditing for security.

Access control is used to restrict user access to Message Queuing objects, and is implemented by assigning security descriptors to objects. A security descriptor lists the users and groups that are granted or denied access to an object, and the specific permissions assigned to those users and groups.

Authentication is implemented with public key certificates, the Kerberos V5 security protocol, and Windows NTLM (for compatibility with Message Queuing 1.0 running on Windows NT 4.0). Public ...

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