The Initiatives/Goals

  • Aims to become the preferred Kerberos server implementation in java, with rich facilities that integrate Kerberos, PKI and token (OAuth2) on both client and server sides.
  • Provides client API to interact with any KDC server.
  • Provides an embeddable and standalone KDC server that supports various backends for storing principals and keys.
  • Comes with in-memory, Mavibot(MVCC BTree), JSON, LDAP and Zookeeper backends to store data.
  • Embedded KDC server allows easy integration into products for unit testing or production deployment.
  • 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, SLF4J is the only external dependency in the core part.