TY - GEN
T1 - Security credential mapping in grids
AU - Ahsant, Mehran
AU - González, Esteban Talavera
AU - Basney, Jim
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Federating security and trust is one of the most significant architectural requirements in grids. In this regard, one challenging issue is the cross-organizational authentication and identification. Organizations participated in Virtual Organizations (VOs) may use different security infrastructures that implement different authentication and identification protocols. Thus, arises an architectural need to provide a mechanism for a lightweight, rapid and interoperable translation of security credentials from an original format to a format understandable by recipients. In this paper, we describe the development and the implementation of an architecture for credential mapping in grids using off-the-shelf technologies and standard specifications. Our open-source implementation of this architecture provides support for an on-the-fly exchange for different types of security credentials used by diverse grid security infrastructures.
AB - Federating security and trust is one of the most significant architectural requirements in grids. In this regard, one challenging issue is the cross-organizational authentication and identification. Organizations participated in Virtual Organizations (VOs) may use different security infrastructures that implement different authentication and identification protocols. Thus, arises an architectural need to provide a mechanism for a lightweight, rapid and interoperable translation of security credentials from an original format to a format understandable by recipients. In this paper, we describe the development and the implementation of an architecture for credential mapping in grids using off-the-shelf technologies and standard specifications. Our open-source implementation of this architecture provides support for an on-the-fly exchange for different types of security credentials used by diverse grid security infrastructures.
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U2 - 10.1109/ARES.2009.93
DO - 10.1109/ARES.2009.93
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349676193
SN - 9780769535647
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2009
SP - 481
EP - 486
BT - Proceedings - International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2009
T2 - International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2009
Y2 - 16 March 2009 through 19 March 2009
ER -