The Ticket Granting Ticket is a small, encrypted identification file with a limited validity period. After authentication this file is granted to an user for his data traffic protection by the
KDC subsystem of authentication services like
Kerberos. The TGT file contains the session key, its expiration date, and user's
IP address which bewares the user from a
man-in-the-middle attack.
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