I don't have the mental capacity to do a whole lot of socialing across all the different sites these days, so here's a list of greatest hits.

https://syfuhs.net/what-happens-when-you-type-your-password-into-windows

What Happens When you Type Your Password into Windows?

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you type your password into the Windows logon screen and hit enter?

How Windows Single Sign-On Works

Have you ever wondered how Windows does Single Sign-on?

How Authentication Works when you use Remote Desktop

Have you ever wondered how authentication works for things like Remote Desktop?

Kerberos! A lot of kerberos. https://syfuhs.net/a-bit-about-kerberos
Kerberos Explained in a Little Too Much Detail

Kerberos is an authenticated key agreement protocol based on the Needham-Schroeder protocol. That's too complicated -- let's break it down a little.

Probably the most popular one: Disabling RC4 is a PITA FFS GDit https://syfuhs.net/lessons-in-disabling-rc4-in-active-directory
Lessons in Disabling RC4 in Active Directory

Customer lessons learned when disabling RC4 in Active Directory.

If you read all those without falling asleep or getting angry, check out all the other ridiculous things I've written about Windows auth: https://syfuhs.net/understanding-windows-auth
Understanding Windows Authentication

So, you want to understand all the fiddly bits about authentication in Windows?

@SteveSyfuhs thank you for my holiday break reading list.
@SteveSyfuhs cool. Fwiw there are places where it's and its should be swapped, esp "it's password" and "its genuine".
@jsoref did you seriously just come here to tell me I misused apostrophes in a few places? In a blog post? That originated as a Twitter thread? Two years ago? Why do you think that's an appropriate thing to do?
@SteveSyfuhs sorry. I find it worthwhile to update living documents. It helps people reading in translation amongst other things.
@SteveSyfuhs And stuff, guve those pups a treat

@SteveSyfuhs I'm going to tag this as one of Steve's greatest hits because I link it every few months as part of some argument.

https://syfuhs.net/on-computer-passwords

On Computer Passwords

Computer accounts have passwords. Here's some facts about them.

@SteveSyfuhs if you haven’t already requested your Twitter archive, do so asap. It takes a few days, but you get a nice zip file with all of your tweet history. Then, if you so choose, you can upload that zip file to archive.org for posterity, in case the originals become unavailable. https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-archive-your-tweets-with-the-wayback-machine/
How to archive your Tweets with the Wayback Machine – Internet Archive Help Center

@SteveSyfuhs Thank you! It makes me so happy to see at least a few friends’ pets here. I miss our hilarious threads, though.