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From: goldkamp@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Richard Goldkamp)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
Subject: Analysis of Kerberos -- Help needed
Keywords: Packet sniffers  analysis  journals
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Date: 12 Apr 91 15:56:32 GMT
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Hello again.  Many thanks to John Carr at MIT who provided the AIX patches
for Kerberos which I requested the other day!  :-)

I am trying to do some analysis of Kerberos' performance for a Distrubuted
Systems class project, so I have a few more questions.

   - Does anyone know of any studies of Kerberos which have been published
     in any of the technical journals (or anywhere else ) ?  Specifically,
     I am interested in issues relating to the performance of Kerberos --
     overhead incurred, resource usage, network traffic, any analysis on
     penetrability, documented deficiencies, profiles of usage patterns, etc.

   - Can anyone point me in the direction of software capable of listening
     to network traffic and intercepting packets as they come across the
     network ?

Thanks in advance for any and all help !  :-)

- Rich Goldkamp