What is Kerberos? Which version is currently used by
Windows? How does Kerberos work?

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What is Kerberos? Which version is currently used by Windows? How does Kerberos work?..

Answer / raghunandan

Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. It is
designed to provide strong authentication for client/server
applications by using secret-key cryptography. A free
implementation of this protocol is available from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kerberos is
available in many commercial products as well.

Version 5.0

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What is Kerberos? Which version is currently used by Windows? How does Kerberos work?..

Answer / gaurav dharasania

When you log in, your client contacts the Kerberos server
and uses your password to prove your identity. In return it
receives a special "ticket granting ticket" (TGT), valid
for several hours.

When your client wants to contact a network service on your
behalf (e.g. to mount a network file share), it first
contacts the Kerberos server with the TGT and the name of
the service. The Kerberos server issues a service ticket,
which your client presents to the actual network service.
The network service validates the ticket (without
contacting the Kerberos server) and allows the connection.

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What is Kerberos? Which version is currently used by Windows? How does Kerberos work?..

Answer / alchemist

After giving logon credentials an encryption key will be
generated which is used to encrypt the time stamp of the
client machine. User name and encrypted timestamp
information will be provided to domain controller for
authentication. Then Domain controller based on the
password information stored in AD for that user it decrypts
the encrypted time stamp information. If produces time
stamp matches to its time stamp. It will provide logon
session key and Ticket granting ticket to client in an
encryption format. Again client decrypts and if produced
time stamp information is matching then it will use logon
session key to logon to the domain. Ticket granting ticket
will be used to generate service granting ticket when
accessing network resources

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What is Kerberos? Which version is currently used by Windows? How does Kerberos work?..

Answer / venkataramanarao

kerberos is an authentication protocol as posted earlier
the version of kerberos is 5.0 in windows and in prewindows
authentication protocol is NTLM. ntlm is new technology lan
manager as authentication protocol.

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What is Kerberos? Which version is currently used by Windows? How does Kerberos work?..

Answer / dev

Domain controllers this service enables users to logon to
the network using the kerberos autentication protocol. if
this service is stopped on a domain controller users will be
unable to logon to the network.

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What is Kerberos? Which version is currently used by Windows? How does Kerberos work?..

Answer / hari

Kerberos is a name derived from greek mythology naming "A
dog with three heads"which guards "Hades(God of the
Underworld).It is a network authentication protocol which
uses symmetric key cryptography.kerberos has the feature of
authenticating client to server and server to client.

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