Limitations of the Kerberos Protocol
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The Kerberos authentication system, a part of MIT’s Project Athena, has been adopted by other organizations. Despite Kerberos’s many strengths, it has a number of limitations and some weaknesses. Some are due to specifics of the MIT environment; others represent failures in the protocol design. We discuss a number of such problems, and present solutions to some of them. We also demonstrate how special-purpose cryptographic hardware may be needed in some cases.
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تاریخ انتشار 1991