Understanding Kerberos

These two articles gives a very good starting point in understandaing how Kerberos works. The fundamental knowledge is useful when you are planning to enable Kerberos authentication for SharePoint portal, especially you are building some custom application on top of SharePoint, or in my case, K2.NET, which will not work without Kerberos authentication. Exploring Kerberos, the Protocol for Distributed Securityin Windows 2000-- MSJ, August 1999 http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0899/kerberos/kerberos.aspx TechNet Support WebCast Troubleshooting Kerberos authentication with secure Web applications and Microsoft SQL Server http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842861