Kerberos only uses secret-key Cryptography instead of public-key cryptography. It is a lot easier to design those.
Discovering KDCs
I needed a way to find KDCs for a domain. Here’s how I did it for TCP and UDP.
dig SRV _kerberos._udp.DOMAINNAME
And similarly for TCP.
dig SRV _kerberos._tcp.DOMAINNAME
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@article{yaltirakli,
title = "Kerberos",
author = "Yaltirakli, Gokberk",
journal = "gkbrk.com",
year = "2025",
url = "https://www.gkbrk.com/kerberos"
}
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IEEE Citation Gokberk Yaltirakli, "Kerberos", January, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.gkbrk.com/kerberos. [Accessed Jan. 20, 2025].
APA Style Yaltirakli, G. (2025, January 20). Kerberos. https://www.gkbrk.com/kerberos
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