April 2008 — News
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Microsoft Joins MIT Kerberos Consortium
Industry supporters of Kerberos and the Kerberos Consortium include Sun, Apple, Google, Centrify, and TeamF1. Institutional supporters, aside from MIT, include Stanford University, University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Duke University, Iowa State University, Michigan State University, and Pennsylvania State University. NASA and the United States Department of Defense are also founding sponsors.
"Microsoft joining the Kerberos Consortium is significant," Buckley said. "They represent a vast number of users of Kerberos. It is an important step forward towards our common ambition to create a universal authentication platform for the world's computer networks."
The Kerberos protocol has already been implemented in several Microsoft products, from Windows 2000 to Vista, and is the main authentication mechanism used in Active Directory.
According to the MIT News Office, Microsoft will be at the next executive advisory board meeting for the group, which will be held at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, April 7.
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