On the Origin of Kerberos

On the Origin of Kerberos

Reports on the special features and applications supported by Kerberos, a cryptographic authentication and key distribution system developed by MIT Project Athena with the goal that a single login provide access to many different computing services. Kerberos is distributed as a component of most maj...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE annals of the history of computing 2021-01, Vol.43 (1), p.89-91
Hauptverfasser: Saltzer, Jerome H., Walden, David
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Authentication
Cryptography
Distributed computing
Encryption
Operating systems
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Zusammenfassung:Reports on the special features and applications supported by Kerberos, a cryptographic authentication and key distribution system developed by MIT Project Athena with the goal that a single login provide access to many different computing services. Kerberos is distributed as a component of most major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Apple OS/X and IOS, IBM z/OS, and many versions of Unix.
ISSN:1058-6180
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DOI:10.1109/MAHC.2021.3051508