A mechanism for the secure authentication of the identity of network clients by servers and vice versa, without presuming the operating system integrity of either.
A Cams server service that verifies the user identity and establishes a session that exists until the user logs out or the session times out due to inactivity.
Authentication is a verification of a user's identity. The Authentication Service (AS) hands out a ticket-granting-ticket, which is turn is used to access the ticket-granting-service (TGS). The heart of Kerberos lies in its ticket-granting process.