How Kerberos Works
This section provides a simplified description of a general user's
interaction with the Kerberos system. This interaction happens
transparently--users don't need to know and probably don't care about
what's going on--but Kerberos administrators might find a schematic
description of the process useful. This description glosses over a lot
of details; for more information, see Kerberos: An Authentication
Service for Open Network Systems, a paper presented at Winter USENIX
1988, in Dallas, Texas. This paper can be retreived by FTP from
athena-dist.mit.edu, in the location:
/pub/ATHENA/kerberos/doc/usenix.PS.
