An improved kerberos intra-domain authentication protocol based-on certificateless public-key cryptography

Abstract

The paper sums up some improvements in Kerberos intra-domain authentication protocol included in many domestic and foreign literatures. By analyzing the limitations of those improvement schemes, an improvement in Kerberos intra-domain authentication protocol based on certificateless public-key thought is proposed. The analysis shows that the improvement proposal can overcome some defects in the original Kerberos intra-domain authentication protocol, such as the key escrow problem and network intermediaries attack, etc. Moreover, the improvement also meets the demand of security proposed by key agreement protocol, which has a certain security and perspective of application in the process of network identity authentication. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.