Extending security token to directly issue proxy certificate on P-GRADE portal

Author

Haron, Galoh Rashidah ; Siong, Ng Kang ; Seak, Sea Chong ; Bee, Tan Fui

Author_Institution

MIMOS, Inf. Syst. Security Lab., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

4-6 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

979

Lastpage

984

Abstract

The paper presents a technical solution to issue proxy certificate for grid end users using hardware and software token in grid systems. These tokens consist of user identity certificate and keys associated with the certificate. The discussion is initiated with the adoption of current solution; MyProxy as a generator of proxy certificate and credential repository for grid systems. Ongoing efforts are made towards improvising the security of MyProxy. As an alternative of these efforts, a new solution is proposed which will maintain grid workflow functionality without the requisite of MyProxy. The new solution offers minimum security administration which shall give competitive advantage in issuing proxy certificate for grid in Windows environment.

Keywords

grid computing; security of data; PGRADE portal; credential repository grid systems; grid end users; grid workflow functionality; hardware token grid systems; minimum security administration; myproxy security; proxy certificate; security token; software token grid systems; user identity certificate; user identity keys; Computer architecture; Cryptography; Hardware; Industrial electronics; Information security; Information systems; MIMO; Mesh generation; National security; Portals; Malaysia National ID (MyKAD); MyProxy; P-GRADE; PKI; Proxy Certificate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics & Applications, 2009. ISIEA 2009. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4681-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4683-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIEA.2009.5356305

Filename

5356305