1 | Kerberos is freely available from MIT. It provides the tools of authentication and strong cryptography over the network to help secure information systems across an entire enterprise. |
2 | Limitations of Kerberos |
3 | Kerberos is not effective against password guessing attacks; |
4 | To be useful, Kerberos must be integrated with other parts of the system. |
5 | Kerberos does not itself provide authorization, but V5 Kerberos passes authorization information generated by other services. In this manner, Kerberos can be used as a base for building separate distributed authorization services. |