Thursday, April 14, 2011

Kerberos Authentication - Example Changed

Hi All


In Yesterday's blog we saw the example of Alice sending Cookies to Bob. But the analogy is not corect since here Alice becomes a server and Bob, the consumer of that service, the client. What will happen if someone else consumes the cookie etc.

We can change the example as Alice wants the cookies from Bob and only from Bob. Bob wants to give the cookies only to Alice. Bob also wants to give the cookies within a reasonable time to Alice so that orders are not duplicated.

Now go through the example. Instead of alice sending the cookies, she wants the cookies. Instead of eating the cookies, Bob will send the cookies.

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