Additional Resources
The sections in this chapter provide additional resources that can help you take advantage of authentication, authorization, and permissions.
Apple’s Open Source Security Code
To see which security protocols and algorithms are supported by Apple’s macOS security implementation, see the documentation provided with the Open Source security code, which you can download at Apple’s Open Source page, and the Security Release Notes in the latest Xcode Tools from Apple.
Standards and Protocols
For information on standards, protocols, and algorithms used by Apple, see the following sources:
The authentication model for HTTP is described in RFC 2617, HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication.
For information on the TLS protocol, see the IETF TLS working group website.
Documentation of the AES encryption algorithm used for FileVault is available on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website.
For information on Kerberos authentication, see MIT's kerberos page. For information on MIT’s Kerberos for Macintosh, see MIT's Mac development website.
See OS X Server Open Directory Administration, available at Apple's OS X Server resources site, for details on the services that support Kerberos and on how to implement a Kerberos KDC on your macOS server.
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