Heimdal: an independent implementation of Kerberos 5

  • Authors:
  • Johan Danielsson;Assar Westerlund

  • Affiliations:
  • Parallelldatorcentrum, KTH;Swedish Institute of Computer Science

  • Venue:
  • ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Heimdal is an independently developed and free implementation of the Kerberos 5 protocol, unencumbered by US export restrictions. It is compatible with other implementations and is close to the MIT Kerberos 5 API. It includes versions of common applications such as telnet, ftp, rsh, su, and login. Furthermore, it has some new features not available in other implementations, such as authenticated and encrypted X connections, incremental database propagation, and support for IPv6 and Triple DES. There is also support for operation in firewalled environments.