Top Document: Kerberos FAQ, v2.0 (last modified 8/18/2000) Previous Document: 1.3. Hey! I remember my Greek mythology, and I thought the dog that guarded the entrance was called Cerberus! What gives? Next Document: 1.5. What is the latest version of Kerberos available from MIT? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge If you're new to Kerberos, I would suggest you read: * Bill Bryant, "Designing an Authentication System: A Dialogue in Four Scenes." <http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dialogue.html> A cute explanation of Kerberos protocol, in plain English. Technobabble is kept to a minimum. * Jeffrey I. Schiller, "Secure Distributed Computing", Scientific American, November 1994, pp 72-76. An excellent overview that covers all of the important details of the Kerberos protocol. It also explains how it's used at MIT as a "real world" example. This article could be useful in persuading manager droids that Kerberos is a good thing. * J. G. Steiner, B. Clifford Neuman, and J.I. Schiller, "Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems". <ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu/pub/kerberos/doc/> The original paper describing Kerberos. A good general overview. It describes the encryption notation used by many other Kerberos papers, so it is definitely worth reading if you want to read other Kerberos papers. * Brian Tung, "The Moron's Guide to Kerberos" <http://www.isi.edu/~brian/security/kerberos.html> Despite the title, goes into a fair amount of detail. I would suggest reading this after you have read one or more of the higher-level papers. The MIT Kerberos web page <http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/> has many links pointing to Kerberos resources. One of the best tutorials for Kerberos is Jim Rowe's, "How To Kerberize Your Site", which is available at: * <http://www.y12.doe.gov/~jar/HowToKerb.html> There is an RFC for Kerberos 5: RFC 1510, which is available at: <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1510.txt> But it is a rather difficult read unless you already know a lot about how Kerberos works. User Contributions:Top Document: Kerberos FAQ, v2.0 (last modified 8/18/2000) Previous Document: 1.3. Hey! I remember my Greek mythology, and I thought the dog that guarded the entrance was called Cerberus! What gives? Next Document: 1.5. What is the latest version of Kerberos available from MIT? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
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