How does kerberos provides authentication without transmitting passwords?

[shivajikobardan]

This figure describes Kerberos finely.

I get everything at the high level.

But the intricacies(probably the cryptography voodoos) are not visible to me.


I know the math. I just need to know exactly what is going on to make sense.

[madires]

Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol) for more details and a list of references and RFCs. A good book about cryptography, including Kerberos, is 'Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World' by Kaufman/Perlman/Speciner (warning: tough read).