Extending UNICORE 5 Authentication Modelby Supporting Proxy Certificate Profile Extensions

摘要

Authentication interoperability between the UNICORE grid middleware system and other Grid middleware systems is addressed. An approach to extending the UNICORE authentication model to support a proxy certificate (RFC3280) profile is presented. This optional feature can then be enabled based on site policy. Furthermore, the addition capacitates further advances related to authorization. With interoperability becoming a key issue in many production environments, extending the generality of UNICORE in this way opens up the possibility of direct and general interoperability scenarios.