Hey folks,Kerberos is an authentication service, it has really robust architecture built in it.The basic components in kerberos include the Keydistribution service from which the client communicates to get a token to reach a server, this enables the way to keep the passwords secure from not transferred a lot of times across the network.Once u get a key to interact to the servers you use that session key with an encryption on it, so its really a cool authentication service.By the way its not only developed at MIT it is also by our Proff Clifford Neuman at University of Southern California, where i am..chaitnaya