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GSI Authentication on Web Services
  • Ashraf Memon
  • San Diego Supercomputer Center
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Some Background

  • Web Services at the beginning kept simple for popularity
  • As web services became popular, people started thinking about web services security
  • Lot of effort is being involved with respect to WS-Security
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Why web service security?
  • Exchange of data between different security regimes
  • Service providers wants to know who is accessing their service
  • Limited access to sensitive data
  • Limited access to computing and other resources


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Various Security Mechanism
  • User/Password
  • Kerberos
  • Public Key Infrastructure


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Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
  • Uses Public Key Infrastructure (Extensions of X.509)
  • Single Sign on
  • Time limited proxy certificate
  • Used on OGSI in GT3
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How does it really work?
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Existing Model of security in ArcWeb Services
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Using GSI Authentication
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More Information
  • GEONGrid
    • www.GEONGrid.org
    • San Diego Supercomputer Center
    • www.sdsc.edu
  • National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
    • www.npaci.edu
  • Ashraf Memon
    • amemon@sdsc.edu