[ogsa-wg] a potential OGSA Authentication Profile (was: RE: CALL CANCELLED)

[Alan Sill]

Thanks, the information and link below are very helpful.

I think a "simple" staring point is helpful, but people may also be  
interested in practical starting points for secure practices that are  
already in use.  (I find it annoying, for example, as I'm sure you  
and others do also that the first steps of the Globus tutorials  
always start with turning off security as being viewed as "too  
complicated" for beginning users to understand.  I think if presented  
properly, everyone is naturally interested in implementing a starting  
point that can give good security practices from the outset.)

Given that this call appears to be cancelled, I think your suggestion  
to call in to the OGSA HPC call is a good one -- I'll be happy to  
join if you'll supply the call-in particulars.

Alan

On Dec 14, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Marty Humphrey wrote:

>
> Alan et. al.,
>
> Having somewhat caught up with this desire within OGSA to create "very
> simple one-to-one, OGSA Basic Security Authentication Profile  
> proposal", I
> think that the current "Security considerations" of the latest  
> draft of the
> "HPC Basic Profile"
> (http://forge.ggf.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.ogsa- 
> hpcp-wg/do
> cman.root.drafts.hpc_basic_profile/doc13736/5) might be what you're  
> looking
> for.
>
> That is, we wrote up essentially a "very simple one-to-one, OGSA Basic
> Security Authentication Profile proposal" based on our collective
> experiences of the HPC Basic Profile interop demo for SC2006.
>
> The question, of course, is: to what extent does your definition of  
> "simple"
> match our definition of "simple"?
>
> We're discussing this "security considerations" tomorrow (11  
> Eastern) in the
> OGSA HPC Profile call -- please participate if you're interested...
>
> -- Marty
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> Alan Sill
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:36 AM
> To: Andreas Savva
> Cc: ogsa-wg
> Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] CALL CANCELLED
>
> I came in early today (normally drive to drop my kids off at school
> between 7:30 to 8:00 each day)  to participate in the requirements
> discussion for an authentication profile for the HPC use case.  I
> will try to connect to the previously announced number at 8:00 am to
> see if that conversation can proceed.)
>
> In the meantime, any pointers beyond the gridforge pages to work done
> on the HPC use case in this regard would be useful.  If we do connect
> this morning or in a future meeting, I would be willing to describe
> the AuthN/AuthZ infrastructure choices possible with which I am
> familiar for the cluster and HPC conditions.
>
> Alan
>
> On Dec 14, 2006, at 7:26 AM, Andreas Savva wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I forgot to mention that if any group self-forms at a later
>> point
>> today and decides to have an ad-hoc discussion on any of the topics
>> you
>> should email the list.
>>
>> A number of people came for both the workflow and the security
>> discussion but we were missing the leading figures.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> Andreas Savva wrote:
>>> Today's call is canceled due to lack of quorum.
>>>
>>> Thanks and apologies to all who came.
>>> Andreas
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> Alan Sill, Ph.D
> TIGRE Senior Scientist
> High Performance Computing Center
> TTU
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