[3465] in Kerberos
Re: I know I should read the FAQ, but where?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Jun 24 01:59:56 1994
To: drr@terrapin.raleigh.com
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [3464] in Kerberos
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 23:49:33 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Kerberos is not a "communication protocol"; it is a network
authentication system. You can use it to cryptographically verify a
network-user's credentials based upon a user's password. No
information, in Kerberos, goes across the network in clear-text that
could gain an attacker any useful information.
If you are really interested, I would suggest reading the papers on
Kerberos, which you can obtain via anonymous ftp from
athena-dist.mit.edu:/pub/kerberos/doc
Hope this helps
-derek
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
Home page: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/home_page.html
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