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Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5.
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Kerberos is a system for authenticating users and services on a network.
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It is built upon the assumption that the network is "unsafe". Kerberos
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is a trusted third-party service. That means that there is a third
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party (the Kerberos server) that is trusted by all the entities on the
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network (users and services, usually called "principals"). All
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principals share a secret password (or key) with the Kerberos server and
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this enables principals to verify that the messages from the Kerberos
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server are authentic. Thus trusting the Kerberos server, users and
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services can authenticate each other.
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