What is Kerberos?

It is an authentication service developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kerberos uses encryption to prevent intruders from discovering passwords and gaining unauthorized access to files.
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swathi

  • May 29th, 2006
 

literal meaning it s a 3 headed dog....

in specific viv gou

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swathi

  • May 29th, 2006
 

3 headed dog in greek

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Jai Singh

  • Dec 18th, 2006
 

kerberos is Security Protocal that Authenticate,whether this user is valid or not.if user is not valid it reject otherwise it allow to access service.

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krisgroup

  • Oct 22nd, 2007
 

hey folks,

Kerberos is an authentication service, it has really robust architecture built in it.
The basic components in kerberos include the Keydistribution service from which the client communicates to get a token to reach a server, this enables the way to keep the passwords secure from not transferred a lot of times across the network.
Once u get a key to interact to the servers you use that session key with an encryption on it, so its really a cool authentication service.

By the way its not only developed at MIT it is also by our Proff Clifford Neuman at University of Southern California, where i am..

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