<cryptography, operating system, security> (SAM) A password
database stored as a registry file in Windows NT and Windows
2000. The System Account Manager (SAM) database stores users'
passwords in a hashed format. Since a hash function is one-way,
this provides some measure of security for the storage of the
passwords. In an attempt to enhance the security of the SAM
database against offline cracking, Microsoft introduced the
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