NSA backdoor risks in Kerberos

[Tom Yu]

dan at geer.org writes:

>  > Has there been a technical writeup of potential backdoor risks in 
>  > Kerberos, similar to the stuff that keeps coming out about various RSA 
>  > products:
>
> negative

In contrast, there is some published research showing that the
cryptographic constructs used in modern versions of the Kerberos
protocol are (somewhat surprisingly) provably secure:

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~aboldyre/papers/kerberos.pdf