TITLE:
Extension of Kerberos with X.509 and Integration of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Authentication
AUTHORS:
Murat Akkaya
KEYWORDS:
Kerberos, Network Security, Authentication, Encryption, X.509, ECC, RSA, Simulation
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.9 No.12,
December
30,
2016
ABSTRACT: Kerberos is one of the solutions for
network security problems since it provides strong secret key cryptography over
the insecure networks. Through the Kerberos authentication protocol, a client
can prove its identity to a server (and vice versa) across an insecure network
connection such as on Internet. In this comparative research paper, the
Kerberos authentication protocol is extended and strengthened using x.509 with
the integration of newer authentication system which is compared with previous
authentication systems. In addition to this, RSA encryption mechanism used to
provide authentication and security for the most communication systems replaced
with Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) encryption in Kerberos during
authentication progress through simulation to expose possible efficient
alternatives for key generation and to enhance security.