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Barista: One Exe to Install Doppio and Ristretto
Oct 16, 2026
The 2FA series ends with two LSA components, an unsigned DLL in lsass and a dozen steps that have to happen in the right order. Barista is a wizard that does them one reboot at a time, from a single exe with every binary embedded and hash-checked.
9 min · Cappuccino
9 min · Cappuccino
#windows
#lsa
#2fa
#credential-provider
Build Your Own 2FA for the Windows Logon, Part 3: Gating Network Logons
Oct 11, 2026
Part 2 refuses every network logon for an enrolled account, which makes the account safe and useless. Part 3 adds a gate you open once with a one-time code, so SMB, RPC and WinRM work again for a short window. In C++, with the full source.
Doppio · 3-part series
35 min · French Press
35 min · French Press
#windows
#lsa
#ntlm
#smb
ADHardenKit: Hardening AD Without Breaking It
Oct 7, 2026
LDAP signing, SMB signing, NTLM, Kerberos with AES only. Every hardening checklist has them. I wrote a tool that turns them on in an order that doesn't break the domain.
5 min · Cappuccino
5 min · Cappuccino
#active-directory
#windows-server
#powershell
#hardening
NTLM-Analyzer: Find Out Who Still Uses NTLM
Oct 3, 2026
Windows logs a lot of NTLM activity, but you have to piece it together yourself. I built a tool that shows which users and programs still use NTLMv1 or NTLMv2, and what already runs over Kerberos.
6 min · Cappuccino
6 min · Cappuccino
#active-directory
#ntlm
#kerberos
#auditing
Build Your Own 2FA for the Windows Logon
Sep 30, 2026
How a Credential Provider works and how to build a working TOTP 2FA for local Windows accounts in C++. With rate limiting, replay protection and logging.
Doppio · 3-part series
60 min · French Press
60 min · French Press
#windows
#credential-provider
#2fa
#totp
ADTierKit: Automatic AD-Tiering
Aug 6, 2026
I got tired of building tier models by hand, so I wrote a tool for it. One PowerShell script, one JSON file.
3 min · Espresso
3 min · Espresso
#active-directory
#windows-server
#powershell
#tiering
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