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A grid authentication system with revocation guarantees

  • University of Houston

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Abstract

Credential revocation is a critical problem in grid environments and remains unaddressed in existing grid security solutions. We present a novel grid authentication system that solves the revocation problem. It guarantees instantaneous revocation of both long-term digital identities of hosts/users and short-lived identities of user proxies. With our approach, revocation information is guaranteed to be fresh with high time-granularity. Our system employs mediated RSA (mRSA), adapts Boneh's notion of semi-trusted mediators to suit security in virtual organizations and propagates proxy revocation information as in Micali's NOVOMODO system. Our approach's added benefits include a configuration-free security model for end-users of the grid and fine-grained management of users' delegation capabilities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHigh Performance Computing, HiPC 2005 - 12th International Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages508-517
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540309365, 9783540309369
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event12th International Conference on High Performance Computing, HiPC 2005 - Goa, India
Duration: Dec 18 2005Dec 21 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3769 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on High Performance Computing, HiPC 2005
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityGoa
Period12/18/0512/21/05

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