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Re: Kerberos for ARP authentication

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick van Rein)
Tue Mar 1 05:53:04 2016

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Hello Naveet,

> I am a student and working on a project in which I am using KERBEROS to
> authenticate ARP packets.

This confuses me.  ARP is local bootstrapping stuff, and Kerberos is remote networking built on top of it.  How can you get hold of a Kerberos ticket before you have a network?

Usually, Kerberos is used for end-to-end protection, rather than for hop-by-hop issues.

-Rick
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