Unigroup's May 2004 Meeting Announcement


Topic:
MIT Kerberos 5: Introduction to Authentication and Cross-platform Interoperability

Speaker:
Jeff Altman, President,
Secure Endpoints Inc.

Date:
Thursday, 20-MAY-2004      (3rd Thursday)

Location:
Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
104 Washington Street      (Between Rector and Carlisle Streets)
South West Corner of Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
** RSVP Will No Longer Be Required for Entry! **

Time:
6:15 - 6:25 PM Registration
6:25 - 6:35 PM Ask the Wizard - Questions, Answers and Current Events
6:45 - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business
7:00 - 9:30 PM Main Presentation


MEETING INTRODUCTION

Kerberos provides secure login facilities for Unix, Linux and Windows. Our speaker for this month's Kerberos meeting (and the planned OpenAFS meeting) will be Jeff Altman. Unigroup members will remember that Jeff is a past Unigroup speaker (of Kermit95 and Telnet Security Working Group fame). Jeff has been working with a series of well known security related projects for many years.

MIT Kerberos Version 5 is the basis for the Kerberos distributed with Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Debian, MacOS X, OpenVMS, and just about every other Kerberos distribution other than the Heimdal distribution and the implementation built into Microsoft Windows 2000 and subsequent releases. MIT is directly responsible for three Kerberos products:

The current releases of MIT Kerberos 5 for Unix/Linux (1.3.3) and KfW (2.6.1) are available from the MIT Kerberos web site:

  http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/

The MIT Kerberos 5 release 1.3.3 release fixes bugs and adds one major feature:

MIT Kerberos for Windows 2.6 release includes krb5 release 1.3.3 and provides enhanced integration with the Microsoft Windows Kerberos implementation as well as OpenAFS for Windows.

In addition to developing the leading open source implementation of Kerberos, the MIT Kerberos Development Group contributes more than half of the document authors within the IETF Kerberos Working Group. MIT's participation has been crucial to ensuring that all of the major implementations of Kerberos (including Microsoft's) adhere to the published standards to facilitate interoperability.

This talk will provide an introduction to the Kerberos 5 authentication protocol; a detailed overview of the MIT Kerberos implementation; a discussion of interoperability concerns which developers and administrators face when implementing and deploying a multi-platform Kerberos infrastructure; and some demonstrations utilizing the GSS on Linux, Windows, and Java.

Note: If your organization would be interested in providing a grant to further Kerberos development at MIT. Please contact Marshall Vale, Team Leader, of The MIT Kerberos Team, at krbcore@mit.edu.


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DIRECTIONS

	Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
	104 Washington Street
	Wall Street Area
	Downtown, New York City

This building is located on the West side of the street. Cross Streets: Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.

Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown, North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel, East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street. Walking West on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then Washington Streets.

There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel and extending North for a number of blocks.

Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).


PRESENTATION OUTLINE

In this talk, Jeffrey Altman, from Secure Endpoints Inc., will discuss the Kerberos 5 trusted third party implementation.

The topics will include:

The slides for this Kerberos talk may be downloaded from:
  http://www.secure-endpoints.com/talks/unigroup-20040520.pdf

Web Resources:
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  Kerberos: The Network Authentication Protocol
      http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/

  The MIT Kerberos Team
      http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krbdev.html

  The Kerberos Network Authentication Service
      http://gost.isi.edu/info/kerberos/

  Kerberos FAQ
      http://www.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html

  Step-by-Step Guide to Kerberos 5 Interoperability
      http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/security/kerbsteps.asp
  (other Kerberos links are also on this page)


SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Jeffrey Altman, is the President of Secure Endpoints Inc., and is is a long time open source developer and participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force. Jeffrey's current projects and roles include:


COMPANY BIOGRAPHY

Secure Endpoints Inc. specializes in providing support and new development for open source products on the Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 family of products.


GIVEAWAYS

O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.

Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings. Addison-Wesley also has a new end-user discount, available through their User Group program. We will be announcing the details at our next meeting!

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support provided by their User Group programs.

Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway (ie. many of these books are valued between $30 and $60)!

Novell has provided us with some SuSE Linux Distributions.

IBM has provided us with some IBM Tote Bags and Linux Penguins.


FEE SCHEDULE

         Yearly Membership (includes all meetings):      $ 50.00
       * Non-Member Single Meeting:                      $ 20.00
         Student Yearly Membership:                      $ 20.00
         Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID):    $  5.00
         Cash, Check, American Express.


FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS

Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes sandwiches such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as cookies, bottled water and assorted beverages.


Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!

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