March 5, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
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Thoughts on Kerberos...(2)
nOnly the KDC needs to know the user’s password (used to generate the shared secret)
nYou can have multiple KDCs for redundancy, but they all need to have a copy of the username/password database
nOnly the TGS needs to know the secret keys for the servers
nYou can split KDC from TGS, but it is common for those two services to reside on the same physical machine