Kerberos Server Version 2.0 Release Notes

HP’s Kerberos Server V 2.0 Release Note

What’s in This Version

Chapter 18

This mechanism has been provided in this version of the Kerberos Server, by having the

parent process always monitor the server daemon. If the server daemon dies or crashes,

the parent process will automatically spawn a new server daemon.

• Dynamic Propagation

This facility has been provided to automatically propagate incremental changes from the

Primary server to the associated Secondary servers, thus synchronizing both the Primary

and the Secondary servers.

• 3DES Encryption

This version provides 3DES encryption type for secret key technology. 3DES is a much

stronger encryption type than the 56 bit DES encryption algorithm. You can conﬁgure your

server to be either DES or 3DES.

NOTE DES, is still used as the default encryption key type, for backward

compatibility.

• Windows 2000 interoperability

This version enables cross realm authentication with the Windows 2000 server, to allow

you to work in a mixed platform environment.

• Client-Server Clock Skew

This version allows you to clock-skewbetween the client and the server. You need not have

NTP synchronization between the machines.

• Pre-threaded Concurrent Server

In this version the performance has been enhanced as a pool of threads is made available

for simultaneous servicing of multiple client requests.

• C-Tree database

This version uses the C-Tree database as the backend database that uses B+ Tree

algorithm.

• GUI-Administrator

This version of the Kerberos Server has a graphical-user-interface administration tool

that can be used to create and manage the principals in the Kerberos realms.