Network Traffic encryption

By default, what level of encryption is used in communications between
windowss 2003 servers in an AD 2003 domain
Any good reading references?

Appreciate any input.

Carl

It uses Kerberos for encrypting AD authentication. So read up on Kerberos.
As for regular traffic such as CIFS for file sharing, that's not encrypted
at all, from what I've researched. If you want all IP traffic encrypted, you
need to use IPSec.

If you're concerned about sniffing, it's really not that much of an issue in
a switched network since switches send traffic only to ports that the
destination MAC device is on, and also there are VLANs to segment and
isolate specific subnets. So it's not as easy to sniff traffic like it is
when all devices were on a hub.

--
Mel K.
MCSA: M

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> By default, what level of encryption is used in communications between
> windowss 2003 servers in an AD 2003 domain
> Any good reading references?
>
> Appreciate any input.
>
> Carl
>