Speaker
Chad La Joie
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Description
The visions of grid computing as well as the vision of national authentication and authorization infrastructures (AAI) have both become reality in the past few years. Whereas Grid security is based on X.509 certificates, AAIs are typically based on federating campus identity management systems. We review the current state of interoperability between Grids and AAI with a focus on Shibboleth, the most widely used AAI today.
