August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
10h 9m
English
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Kerberos 4
The first version of Kerberos distributed outside of MIT was Kerberos 4. First released to the public on January 24, 1989, Kerberos 4 was adopted by several vendors, who included it in their operating systems. In addition, other, large distributed software projects such as the Andrew File System adopted the concepts behind Kerberos 4 for their own authentication mechanisms.
The basics of what was to become the Kerberos 4 protocol are documented in the Athena Technical Plan. Ultimately, the details of the protocol were documented through the source code in the reference implementation published by MIT.
However, due to export control restrictions on encryption software imposed by the U.S. government, Kerberos 4 could not be exported outside of the United States. Since Kerberos 4 uses DES encryption, organizations outside of the U.S. could not legally download the Kerberos 4 software as-is from MIT. In response, the MIT development team stripped all of the encryption code from Kerberos 4 to create a specialized, exportable version. Eric Young, at Bond University of Australia, took this stripped version of Kerberos 4 and added his own implementation of DES to create "eBones.” Since eBones contained encryption software developed outside of the United States, it was unencumbered by the U.S. encryption export controls, and could be legally used anywhere in the world.
Today, several implementations of Kerberos 4 still exist. The original MIT Kerberos 4 implementation is now in a ...
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