Chapter 11. Kerberos Protocol
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Kerberos Components in Windows 2000
What Does Kerberos Do for Windows 2000?
Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. Kerberos was developed at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1980s. This project was named Project Athena. The project's main design goal was to design, implement, and have the ability to administer distributed environments. Therefore, having this as the main goal, the development team had to provide a strong authentication method for client/server applications. To provide the authentication mechanism for these types of environments, shared secret key cryptography ...
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