Authentication Services Structures (Compact 2013)

3/28/2014

The following table shows the Authentication Services structures with a description of the purpose of each.

Programming element	Description
SCHANNEL_CRED	This structure contains the data for an Schannel credential.
SEC_WINNT_AUTH_IDENTITY	This structure is used to establish the identity of the client and is authentication-service specific.
SecBuffer	This structure describes a buffer that a transport application allocates to pass to a security package.
SecBufferDesc	This structure describes an array of SecBuffer structures to pass from a transport application to a security package.
SecPkgContext_Authority	This structure contains the name of the authenticating authority, if one is available.
SecPkgContext_ConnectionInfo	This structure contains protocol and cipher information.
SecPkgContext_DceInfo	This structure contains authorization data used by distributed computing environment (DCE) services.
SecPkgContext_IssuerListInfoEx	This structure holds a list of trusted certification authorities (CAs).
SecPkgContext_KeyInfo	This structure contains data about the keys used in a security context.
SecPkgContext_Lifespan	This structure indicates the life span of a security context.
SecPkgContext_Names	This structure indicates the name of the user associated with a security context.
SecPkgContext_ProtoInfo	This structure holds information about the protocol in use.
SecPkgContext_Sizes	This structure indicates the sizes of important structures used in the message support functions.
SecPkgContext_StreamSizes	This structure indicates the sizes of the various stream parts for use with the message support functions.
SecPkgCred_CipherStrengths	This structure holds the minimum and maximum strengths permitted for the cipher used by the specified Schannel credential.
SecPkgCred_SupportedAlgs	This structure contains identifiers for algorithms permitted with a specified Schannel credential.
SecPkgCred_SupportedProtocols	This structure indicates the protocols permitted with a specified Schannel credential.
SecPkgCredentials_Names	This structure indicates the name of the user associated with a context.
SecPkgInfo	This structure provides general data about a security package, such as its name and capabilities.
SecurityFunctionTable	This structure is a dispatch table that contains pointers to the callback functions defined in the Sspi.h file.

See Also

Reference

Authentication Services Reference