Disabling PCT

["Egan, William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

Why, oh why, would Microsoft have a binary value (true or false) as a binary
registry data type for disabling PCT?  REG_DWORD isn't good enough anymore?

Anyway, while we're testing the most recent flood of vulnerability patches,
I'd like to disable the use of pct on our web servers.  Following the
workaround instrux from the advisory is ambiguous though.  Can anyone
confirm what the value should actually look like?  After manually creating
it on one server and exporting it, I see:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHAN
NEL\Protocols\PCT 1.0\Server]
"Enabled"=hex:00,00,00,00 

But it could also be:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHAN
NEL\Protocols\PCT 1.0\Server]
"Enabled"=hex:00

Depending on whether I am in hex or binary mode in the binary editor.  

Does it matter?  

I'll go with the latter if no one answers as that's what the following
command adds:

reg add
"\\machinename\hklm\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHAN
NEL\Protocols\PCT 1.0\Server" /v Enabled /t REG_BINARY /d 0

(NOTE: you need the newer version of reg.exe to do this.  Old one does not
support REG_BINARY, but if you're used to the ease of the old reg.exe, have
fun with adjusting to the syntax of the new one and don't replace the old if
you've got scripts that use it.)

Bill

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