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README.md

Apache Kerby

Apache Kerby is a Java Kerberos binding. It provides a rich, intuitive and interoperable implementation, library, KDC and various facilities that integrates PKI, OTP and token (OAuth2) as desired in modern environments such as cloud, Hadoop and mobile.

The Initiatives/Goals

  • Aims as a Java Kerberos binding, with rich and integrated facilities that integrate Kerberos, PKI and token (OAuth2) for both client and server sides.
  • Provides client APIs at the Kerberos protocol level to interact with a KDC server through AS and TGS exchanges.
  • Provides a standalone KDC server that supports various identity back ends including memory based, Json file based, LDAP backed and even Zookeeper backed.
  • Provides an embedded KDC server that applications can easily integrate into products, unit tests or integration tests.
  • Supports FAST/Preauthentication framework to allow popular and useful authentication mechanisms.
  • Supports PKINIT mechanism to allow clients to request tickets using x509 certificate credentials.
  • Supports Token Preauth mechanism to allow clients to request tickets using JWT tokens.
  • Supports OTP mechanism to allow clients to request tickets using One Time Password.
  • Provides support for JAAS, GSSAPI and SASL frameworks that applications can leverage.
  • Minimal dependencies, the core part is ensured to depend only on JRE and SLF4J, for easy use and maintenance.

ASN-1 support

Please look at kerby-asn1 for details.

Kerberos Crypto and Encryption Types

Implementing des, des3, rc4, aes, camellia encryption and corresponding checksum types Interoperates with MIT Kerberos and Microsoft AD Independent of Kerberos code in JRE, but rely on JCE

Encryption TypeDescription
des-cbc-crcDES cbc mode with CRC-32 (weak)
des-cbc-md4DES cbc mode with RSA-MD4 (weak)
des-cbc-md5DES cbc mode with RSA-MD5 (weak)
des3-cbc-sha1 des3-hmac-sha1 des3-cbc-sha1-kdTriple DES cbc mode with HMAC/sha1
des-hmac-sha1DES with HMAC/sha1 (weak)
aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 aes256-cts AES-256CTS mode with 96-bit SHA-1 HMAC
aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96 aes128-cts AES-128CTS mode with 96-bit SHA-1 HMAC
arcfour-hmac rc4-hmac arcfour-hmac-md5RC4 with HMAC/MD5
arcfour-hmac-exp rc4-hmac-exp arcfour-hmac-md5-expExportable RC4 with HMAC/MD5 (weak)
camellia256-cts-cmac camellia256-ctsCamellia-256 CTS mode with CMAC
camellia128-cts-cmac camellia128-ctsCamellia-128 CTS mode with CMAC
desThe DES family: des-cbc-crc, des-cbc-md5, and des-cbc-md4 (weak)
des3The triple DES family: des3-cbc-sha1
aesThe AES family: aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 and aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96
rc4The RC4 family: arcfour-hmac
camelliaThe Camellia family: camellia256-cts-cmac and camellia128-cts-cmac

How to play with the standalone KDC

Kerby KDC

Kerby Lib Projects

  • kerby-asn1. A model driven ASN-1 encoding and decoding framework
  • kerby-event. A pure event driven application framework aiming to construct applications of asynchronous and concurrent handlers. It includes UDP and TCP transports based on pure Java NIO and concurrency pattern.
  • kerby-config. A unified configuration API that aims to support various configuration file formats, like XML, INI, even Java Map and Properties.

Dependency

  • The core part is ensured to only depend on the JRE and SLF4J. Every external dependency is taken carefully and maintained separately.
  • Not-Yet-Commons-SSL, required by pki-provider and PKINIT mechanism.
  • Nimbus JOSE + JWT, needed by token-provider and TokenPreauth mechanism.

License

Apache License V2.0

How to contribute

  • Git repo in Apache: Source codes
  • Umbrella JIRA: it's tracked in the master JIRA DIRKRB-102, and find tasks there.