Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. This directory contains Kerberos client software for Macintosh and Windows from MIT, and Kerberos server software from MIT and Heimdal in Sweden. Prior to installing this software, we recommend you confirm if your operating system already offers Kerberos support (ie *BSD, Microsoft Windows), or has binary packages available for it (ie most Linux distributions).