Encryption/Security
Kerberos
Product Overview
An implementation of Kerberos, a network authentication protocol designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications, for OpenVMS systems.
Latest Version
| Alpha | Integrity | X-86 |
|---|---|---|
| V3.3-2 | V3.3-2 | V3.3-3 |
Features
Kerberos performs authentication as a trusted third-party authentication service by using secret key cryptography. Kerberos verifies the identities of principals without relying on authentication by the host operating system, without basing trust on host addresses, without requiring physical security of all the hosts on the network, and under the assumption that packets traveling along the network can be read, modified, and inserted at will.
Kerberos was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of Project Athena in the mid-1980s. The Kerberos protocol uses strong cryptography, so that a client can prove its identity to a server (and vice versa) across an insecure network connection. After a client and server have used Kerberos to prove their identity, they can also encrypt all of their communications to assure privacy and data integrity.
OpenVMS provides support for both Kerberos clients and servers.
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