Forms authentication uses standard HTML forms for entering credentials, so you send the user name and password over the network as plain text. This is an obvious security risk—anyone who intercepts ...

On Tuesday, the Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity and Web services standards, announced the formation of a global, cross-organizational expert group focused on ...

Exchange Server 2003 offers a feature called "form-based authentication" that can make your Outlook Web Access more secure. When you enable this authentication method, OWA stores the user’s name and ...

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We wouldn’t consider Windows authentication as a feasible strategy as you cannot expose your service over the Internet if you leverage Windows authentication. Forms authentication uses the ASP.Net ...