Kerberos: Computer Security's Hellhound
Paul Hill, information systems senior programmer at MIT and a member of the Kerberos development team since 1992, outlines the benefits of the Kerberos system. First, it has been subjected to public review for over a decade. Second, version 5 of the protocol-the most current version-was developed within the IETF standards process. Finally, Kerberos provides for secure authentication and message integrity, as well as data confidentiality and mutual authentication between a client and a server.
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