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What is Heimdal?

Heimdal is an implementation of Kerberos 5 (and some more stuff) originally developed in Sweden (which was important when the project started, less so now). It is freely available under a three clause BSD style license.

Secure Endpoints, Inc. ported Heimdal to the Microsoft Windows operating system platform as a replacement for MIT's Kerberos for Windows which has not been updated in several years.  The Secure Endpoints' Heimdal distribution consists of several components:

Comparing Heimdal 7.4 and MIT Kerberos 3.2.2

The following table is a comparison

Feature Heimdal 7.4 MIT Kerberos 3.2.2
Supported Operating System versions Windows Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Windows 8.x, Windows 10.x Server 2016 Windows 2000, Server 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, Server 2003 R2
Supported CPU Architecture i386 and AMD64 i386 officially supported; AMD64 only from Secure Endpoints
Installer architecture MSI 32-bit EXE and MSI
Number of installers required for 64-bit Windows One installer combines both 64-bit and 32-bit components not officially supported; separate installers required for both 64-bit and 32-bit components when obtained from Secure Endpoints
Supports OpenAFS rxgk security class Yes, includes support for GSS-API Pseudo-random function No
MIT API Credential Cache v2 Yes, via a plug-in Yes
Microsoft LSA Credential Cache Yes, via a plug-in Yes
FILE Credential Cache Yes Yes
MEMORY Credential Cache Yes Yes
Credential Cache Plug-in Mechanism Yes No
kadmin utility Yes No
Keytab Utility Yes No
Kswitch Utility Yes No
KDC Support Not included in installers but can be built from source code No
GSS-API Library Yes Yes
Kerberos v5 Library Yes Yes
Kerberos v4 Library No Yes (32-bit only)
Kerberos 524 conversion No Yes
Side-by-side Assembly Yes, multiple versions of Heimdal can be present on the machine at the same time without breaking applications No, all applications must use the same version
Network Provider Logon integration No, existing credential caches do not support storage of Kerberos credentials before the logon session is created Yes, but it is incompatible with Windows Vista, Server 2008 and beyond
Supported by applications linked against the Secure Endpoints Kebreros Compatibility SDK 1.0 Yes Yes
Credential Manager User Interface No, Network Identity Manager v2 is available separately Network Identity Manager v1.3.1 included; v2 is available as an upgrade

Ohloh provides a side-by-side comparison of the two development projects.  The MIT numbers include Network Identity Manager v1.3.1.

Downloads

Heimdal 7.4

Heimdal 7.4 was released on 11 July 2017. The full version number is 7.4.0.40. The installers are digitally signed by "Secure Endpoints Inc.".

Heimdal 1.5.1

Heimdal 1.5.1 was released on 30 September 2011. The full version number is 1.5.100.930. The installers are digitally signed by "Secure Endpoints Inc.".


This page was last updated 10/02/11