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GridPP18 in Glasgow
Thu 22 March 2007 12:03pm
Most of my talks at collaboration meetings are status reports, but this time
I did an overview of
the "credential soup" of abbreviations and
acronyms in the security area, including
X.509, GSI, CAS, LDAP-VO, GACL, VOMS, XACML, SAML, Shibboleth, VOM, WS-Sec, ...
This talk also kicked off with a new concept: "Grid projects typically generate one new acronym for every 10,000 lines of code" (McNab's Law of Grid Acronyms!)
There are some new ideas on the (web) horizon, like OpenID and Shibboleth, but the credentials side of things is pretty much sorted in EGEE/LCG now. However access policies, and how to maintain them in production at sites, is still up in the air - with a mixture of solutions on offer and some big gaps.
Contact info
Dr Andrew McNab,
Department of Physics
and Astronomy,
University of Manchester,
Manchester,
United Kingdom,
M13 9PL
Andrew.McNab@cern.ch
Phone: +44-161-306-6474
Fax: +44-161-273-5867
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