Comment by Nextgrid

3 years ago

Isn't Kerberos explicitly designed to run over untrusted networks and not require any additional transport encryption?

You could argue that the common implementations are large piles of legacy C with questionable memory safety that could open them to exploitation by malicious actors, but that's an implementation detail rather than the protocol itself - and I believe there's at least one (mostly?) memory-safe implementation in Java called Apache Kerby.