Kerberos Authentication Protocols is a network authentication protocol that provides secure communication over an insecure network by using secret-key cryptography. It was originally developed at MIT and is now widely used in many different organizations, including Microsoft Windows.
Kerberos authentication works by using a third-party authentication server to verify the identities of users and services. When a user requests access to a resource, such as a file server, the user's computer sends a request to the Kerberos authentication server. The authentication server verifies the user's identity and issues a ticket-granting ticket (TGT) that the user can use to request access to other resources on the network.
The user then presents the TGT to a ticket-granting server (TGS), which issues a service ticket for the requested resource. The user presents this service ticket to the resource server, which grants access if the ticket is valid.
Kerberos authentication is widely used in enterprise environments because it provides a high level of security and is scalable to support large networks with many users and resources.
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