I found a good Network authentication protocol which can be helpful for our project. Kerberos is a protocol and it has it’s own Architecture. And it is mainly designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. A free implementation of this protocol is available from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kerberos is available in many commercial products as well.

You may refer to the following site for more information – http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/#what_is

And heres some papers about Kerberos – http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/papers.html

With smile,
Shayanth

Kerberos Architecture is a post from: Project eID Blog