Kerberos
Kerberos authentication in Windows 2000 uses a shared secret, the password, to identify the user, and then grants him a ticket containing information about who he is. This ticket can then be used to obtain access to services throughout the forest.
History of Kerberos
Kerberos was created as part of project Athena at MIT in the 1980s. It is a mature, tested authentication protocol that has been implemented on thousands of servers over several decades. Kerberos was chosen as the default authentication protocol for Windows 2000 for its robustness, availability, and proven track record.
Advantages of Kerberos
Kerberos has several advantages over previous authentication protocols. It is interoperable with Kerberos implementations on other ...
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