Kerberos Protocol Advantages

• Faster connection authentication

  • Server scalability for high-volume connections
  • Reuse session tickets from cache

• Mutual authentication of both client, server

• Delegation of authentication

  • Impersonation in three-tier client/server architectures

• Transitive trust between domains

  • Simplify inter-domain trust management

• Mature IETF standard for interoperability

  • Testing with MIT Kerberos V5 Release

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