What hashing algorithms are used in active direcotory (AD) 2003 to store password? Have any article in technet?Microsoft - Your potencial. Our passion. .'. aislancunha.spaces.live.com

should be MD4 (NTLM)

Hi, It is RSA MD-4 encryption algorithm. For more information, please refer to this article: NTLM user authentication in Windows http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102716 Hope it helps. Regards, BruceThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

it also stores MD5 hashes of the passwords to enable Advanced Digest Authentication. So there are actually two hashes stored in AD. ondrej.