What Cisco-developed authentication protocol supersedes prior versions by utilizing TCP to manage AAA services?
TACACS+
XTACACS
RADIUS
Kerberos
AAA stands for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting. Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+) is a protocol developed by Cisco to replace TACACS and XTACACS. It adds the benefit of full packet encryption and implements transmission control through TCP.
Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS, ) refers to a family of related protocols handling remote authentication and related services for network access control through a centralized server. The original TACACS protocol, which dates back to 1984, was used for communicating with an authentication server, common in older UNIX networks including but not limited to the ARPANET, MILNET and BBNNET. It spawned related protocols: Extended TACACS (XTACACS) is a proprietary extension to TACACS introduced by Cisco Systems in 1990 without backwards compatibility to the original protocol. TACACS and XTACACS both allow a remote access server to communicate with an authentication server in order to determine if the user has access to the network. TACACS Plus (TACACS+) is a protocol developed by Cisco and released as an open standard beginning in 1993. Although derived from TACACS, TACACS+ is a separate protocol that handles authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services. TACACS+ has largely replaced its predecessors.
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