[915] in Kerberos
Re: Authentication methods of Kerberos...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gla)
Tue Apr 24 01:45:08 1990
Date: 23 Apr 90 10:49:31 GMT
From: usc!samsung!xylogics!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!gla@RUTGERS.EDU (gla)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
wayner@SVAX.CS.CORNELL.EDU (Peter Wayner) writes:
>Q: What system does Kerberos use to authenticate a user? Is it Public-Key
>algorithms or some Zero-Knowledge system? What algorithms are then
>used to encrypt everything else passing over the wires?
Kerberos uses a special protocol using conventional (e.g. DES) encryption.
Please note that Zero-Knowledge means n o t more "secure" than without
Zero-Knowledge.
