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UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (B.U.)BHOPAL.
SEMINAR PRESENTATION APRIL-2011
KERBEROS
SUBMITTED BY- PATEL KUMAR C.S.E(8th - sem).
SUBMITTED TO- Mr. DESHRAJ AHIRWAR
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• Introduction
• What is Protocol?
• Why Kerberos?
• Firewall vs. Kerberos?
• Design Requirements
• Cryptography Approach
• How does Kerberos work?
• Kerberos Vs SSL
• Applications

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• Introduction
• Kerberos is a computer network authentication
  protocol, which allows nodes communicating over a
  non-secure network to prove their identity to one
  another in a secure manner.
• Its designers aimed primarily at a clientserver
  model, and it provides mutual authentication
  both the user and the server verify each other's
  identity.
• Developed at MIT in the mid 1980s
• Available as open source or in supported
  commercial software.

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• What is Protocol?
• protocol is a set of rules which is used by
  computers to communicate with each other across a
  network.
• A protocol is a convention or standard that
  controls or enables the connection,
  communication, and data transfer between
  computing endpoints.

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• Why Kerberos?
• Sending usernames and passwords in the clear
  jeopardizes the security of the network.
• Each time a password is sent in the clear, there
  is a chance for interception.

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• Firewall vs Kerberos
• Firewalls make a risky assumption that attackers
  are coming from the outside. In reality, attacks
  frequently come from within.
• Kerberos assumes that network connections (rather
  than servers and work stations) are the weak link
  in network security.

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Cryptography Approach Private Key Each party
uses the same secret key to encode and decode
messages. Uses a trusted third party which can
vouch for the identity of both parties in a
transaction. Security of third party is
imperative.
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• How does Kerberos work?
• Instead of client sending password to application
  server
• Request Ticket from authentication server
• Ticket and encrypted request sent to application
  server
• How to request tickets without repeatedly sending
  credentials?
• Ticket granting ticket (TGT)

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Kerberos Vs SSL
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• Applications
• Authentication
• It is the act of confirming the truth of an
  attribute of a datum or entity.
• Authorization
• It check the user is liggle or not
• Confidentiality
• It ensuring that information is accessible only
  to those authorized to have access.
• Within networks and small sets of networks

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• Limitation
• Single point of failure
• It requires continuous availability of a central
  server. When the Kerberos server is down, no one
  can log in.
• Kerberos has strict time requirements, which
  means the clocks of the involved hosts must be
  synchronized within configured limits.

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• The tickets have a time availability period and
  if the host clock is not synchronized with the
  Kerberos server clock, the authentication will
  fail.
• Since all authentication is controlled by a
  centralized so attacker may attack the user.

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