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Security Analysis of Kerberos 5 Protocol

Xiaorong Zhang

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Kerberos is a widely-adopted network authentication protocol,which provides secure authentication service based on the trusted third-party.By exploiting a shared key,Kerberos ensures the confidentiality and integrity for a session.This paper describes the basic prin-ciples of the newly-issued version,introduces the detailed procedure of the protocol and by being compared with the previous version,analyze the improvement and faults of Kerberos 5.

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Kerberos is a widely-adopted network authentication protocol,which provides secure authentication service based on the trusted third-party.By exploiting a shared key,Kerberos ensures the confidentiality and integrity for a session.This paper describes the basic prin-ciples of the newly-issued version,introduces the detailed procedure of the protocol and by being compared with the previous version,analyze the improvement and faults of Kerberos 5.

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Kerberos is a widely-adopted network authentication protocol,which provides secure authentication service based on the trusted third-party.By exploiting a shared key,Kerberos ensures the confidentiality and integrity for a session.This paper describes the basic prin-ciples of the newly-issued version,introduces the detailed procedure of the protocol and by being compared with the previous version,analyze the improvement and faults of Kerberos 5.

Key concepts: Kerberos, Computer science, Computer security, Authentication (law), Protocol (science), Authentication protocol, Computer network, Key (lock)

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