The Kerberos authentication protocol is the default authentication protocol of Windows Server 2003. This section examines how the protocol works by breaking down the complexity of the protocol into ...

While Windows IT professionals deal with security on a daily basis, very few understand the under-the-hood protocol, Kerberos. Kerberos is a security protocol in Windows introduced in Windows 2000 to ...

The following sections explain the basic Kerberos protocol as it is defined in RFC 1510. Those not familiar with Kerberos may be bewildered by the need for numerous diverse keys to be transmitted ...

For a long time, Linux has been able to provide file services for Windows using the Samba server. One of the challenges has been the way Samba integrates with client authentication in typical Windows ...