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- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1992 by ACM Inc.
- ISSN
- 0163-5980
- DOI
- 10.1145/142854.142872
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The Kerberos authentication service, a part of MIT's Project Athena, is based on the Needham and Schroeder protocol. Timestamps depending on reliable synchronized clocks are used to guarantee the freshness of messages. As an improvement, we present a nonce-based protocol offering the same features as Kerberos. We generate a ticket in an initial message exchange which includes a generalized timestamp. Checking this generalized timestamp is left to the principal who created it. Consequently we do not need synchronized clocks. Our protocol has the property of using a minimal number of messages to establish an authenticated session key.
Journal
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Oct 1, 1992