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Kerberos: Secure Authentication
- Abstract
- Kerberos was developed at MIT in the late 1980's. It is open source code that is freely available to anyone. Kerberos is one of a few security initiatives implemented by Microsoft to harden their Windows 2000 Operating System. Kerberos has traditionally been used in colleges and universities. It has also found uses in financial institutions. With its current deployment as part of the Windows 2000 OS it promises to reach a much wider user audience. There are some issues with interoperability between Kerberos and the Unix Operating System as Microsoft has installed some proprietary components into the products.