August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
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What Does Kerberos Do for Windows 2000?
Version 5 of the Kerberos authentication protocol is the default network authentication protocol in a Windows 2000 environment. Microsoft has promised that their implementation of the Kerberos protocol will be fully compliant with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Kerberos V5 specification (RFC 1510 and 1964). Kerberos provides a number of benefits over the current Windows NT 4.0 authentication protocol, NT LAN Manager (NTLM). Kerberos offers the following advantages over NTLM: faster session establishment, the creation of transitive trusts, and the support for the delegation of authentication. Also, Kerberos, along withthe Active Directory (AD), provides for single sign-on (SSO) in the Windows ...