Origin of Kerberos

John Hascall john at iastate.edu
Sun Jan 12 12:38:38 EST 2003


> I would like to know when Kerberos has been elaborated  and the number of
> the thirst version please.

Kerberos came out of MIT's Project Athena, (a 5- then 8-year project
funded largely by DEC and IBM) which started in 1983.

The first three version of Kerberos were 'development platforms',
the first public release of the protocol (V4) was in October 1988.

John




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