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Using Kerberos for Net Authentication.

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(From Network Computing Asian Edition)

Byline: Rik Farrow

There are two reasons why Microsoft decided to use the open source Kerberos authentication scheme. Firstly, Kerberos provides a strong and tested design for network authentication and has features that Microsoft needed to make its new networked applications more secure. Secondly, Kerberos also allows for vendor-based extensions for authorisations, which Microsoft has found particularly useful.

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Kerberos was developed by MIT in 1983 to integrate networked computers as part of the student curriculum. The project goals included single sign-on (SSO), networked file systems, ...

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