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More information about passwords

Windows Media servers and certain Web servers use different technologies to verify or authenticate your identity before you can access digital media content. These technologies, which are also known as authentication packages. include the Basic, NTLM, Digest, Kerberos, and Negotiate protocols.

Basic is a very simple authentication protocol that sends your user name and password over a network without any encryption. Anyone monitoring network traffic could potentially discover your user name and password if the server uses Basic authentication.

The Enter Network Password dialog box is only displayed when either the Basic or Digest authentication protocol is used. You can choose not to access the content on a server using the Basic authentication protocol by clicking Cancel in this dialog box.


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