What is Heimdal?

Heimdal is an implementation of Kerberos 5 (and some more stuff) largely written in Sweden (which was important when we started writing it, less so now). It is freely available under a three clause BSD style license.

Other free implementations include the one from MIT, and Shishi. Also Microsoft Windows and Sun's Java come with implementations of Kerberos.

Code

The code is currently at release 1.2.1 and is available at www.h5l.org/dist/, also mirrored by SUNET. Information about where to find the source code and older release history is also available.

Mail

Bugreports should be sent to heimdal-bugs@h5l.se, PGP key for security sensitive bug reports (key id 3B81827E).

Contribute

There are several ways you can contribute to the Heimdal project. See also the development site for change logs and source repository information.

Slides and presentations

• AFS and Kerberos BPW 2008 video pdf