Do you think Microsoft’s Kerberos implementation follows the Kerberos standard? Add your comments and questions to the online Kerberos discussion. In Greek mythology , Kerberos is the three-headed ...

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

Account administration in a distributed UNIX/Linux environment can become complicated and messy if done by hand. Large sites use special tools to deal with this problem. In this article, I describe ...

A buffer overflow in the MIT Kerberos 5 network authentication tool’s “krb5_aname_to_localname()” library function could be exploited to gain root privileges on the affected machine. For more, go to: ...

It seems that everyone’s favorite Kerberos Consortium (also known as the MIT Kerberos Consortium) has just released a new white paper titled: Why is Kerberos a credible security solution? I briefly ...