microsoft.public.platformsdk.security
Windows Platform SDK: security APIs.
Win32 security programming — ACLs and SIDs, tokens and impersonation, SSPI, CryptoAPI — asked and answered by systems programmers on Microsoft’s public news server.
The group’s worked examples circulated for years as the practical companion to MSDN’s reference pages.
Reading microsoft.public.platformsdk.security today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — microsoft.public.platformsdk.security (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.