Security Enhancements to the LDAP Service Provider
These enhancements bring the LDAP service provider in conformance
with standard LDAP security requirements
(RFC 2829)
and promote better interoperability with widely deployed LDAP servers.
Support for the "Start TLS" (Transport
Layer Security) extension
(RFC 2830)
and External SASL authentication mechanism.
This enables applications to establish
secure sessions over existing LDAP connections.
This feature introduces two new classes.
Support for the GSS-API/Kerberos v5 SASL authentication mechanism
(RFC 2222).
This enables secure, authenticated access to the Windows 2000 and XP
Active Directory servers.
Support for the Digest-MD5 SASL authentication mechanism
(RFC 2831).