What is Kerberos & SPNEGO?
Kerberos is an authentication protocol that provides mutual authentication and single sign-on capabilities.
SPNEGO is a plain text mechanism for negotiating authentication protocols between peers; one notable application of this is Kerberos authentication over HTTP.
What is Alfredo?
Alfredo is an Open Source Java library providing support for Kerberos HTTP SPNEGO authentication.
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