Check out this 4 stage theatre piece(play) about "Designing an Authentication System:a Dialogue in Four Scenes " made at MIT ,which is really a fun way to understand authentication ,keys , and kerberos. Check
it out .Gr8 for beginners getting into security,encryption and cryptography.
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dialogue.html
PS: kerberos was actaully desinged at MIT,so this aint a spoof ,its serious and a different way to learn
This dialogue provides a fictitious account of the design of an open-network authentication system called "Charon." As the dialogue progresses, the characters Athena and Euripides discover the problems of security
inherent in an open network environment. Each problem must be addressed in the design of Charon, and the design evolves accordingly. Athena and Euripides don't complete their work until the dialogue's close.
When they finish designing the system, Athena changes the system's name to "Kerberos," the name, coincidentally enough, of the authentication systemthat was designed and implemented at MIT's Project Athena. The dialogue's "Kerberos" system bears a striking resemblence to the system described in Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems presented at the Winter USENIX 1988, at Dallas, Texas.
Contents
* Dramatis Personae
* Scene I
* Scene II
* Scene III
* Scene IV
Actors
Athena = an up and coming system developer.
Euripides = a seasoned developer and resident crank.
it out .Gr8 for beginners getting into security,encryption and cryptography.
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dialogue.html
PS: kerberos was actaully desinged at MIT,so this aint a spoof ,its serious and a different way to learn
This dialogue provides a fictitious account of the design of an open-network authentication system called "Charon." As the dialogue progresses, the characters Athena and Euripides discover the problems of security
inherent in an open network environment. Each problem must be addressed in the design of Charon, and the design evolves accordingly. Athena and Euripides don't complete their work until the dialogue's close.
When they finish designing the system, Athena changes the system's name to "Kerberos," the name, coincidentally enough, of the authentication systemthat was designed and implemented at MIT's Project Athena. The dialogue's "Kerberos" system bears a striking resemblence to the system described in Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems presented at the Winter USENIX 1988, at Dallas, Texas.
Contents
* Dramatis Personae
* Scene I
* Scene II
* Scene III
* Scene IV
Actors
Athena = an up and coming system developer.
Euripides = a seasoned developer and resident crank.