How Kerberos Works
November 9th, 2010
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The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s.
It was part of a project called Athena that involved integrating the computers on the MIT campus, which ran on different operating systems, in a network that offered single sign-on (SSO).
At that time, most UNIX systems allowed users to access their resources as long as they had an account name and password. Read more…
