A review of grid authentication and authorization technologies and support for federated access control

• Published in: ACM computing surveys Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 1 - 26
• Main Authors: Jie, Wei, Arshad, Junaid, Sinnott, Richard, Townend, Paul, Lei, Zhou
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Association for Computing Machinery 01.01.2011
• Subjects: Access control; Applied sciences; Authentication; Authentication protocols; Authorizations; Communities; Computational grids; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Distributed processing; Exact sciences and technology; Information sharing; Information systems. Data bases; Marketing; Memory and file management (including protection and security); Memory organisation. Data processing; Middleware; Security; Software; State of the art; Studies; Virtual organization; Access control; High performance; Resource allocation; Grid; Resource sharing; Distributed system; grid security; Security; Distributed computing; authorization; Shibboleth technology; Authentication; Virtual enterprise; Licence procedure; Grid computing; Computer security
• ISSN: 0360-0300; 1557-7341
• DOI: 10.1145/1883612.1883619

Grid computing facilitates resource sharing typically to support distributed virtual organizations (VO). The multi-institutional nature of a grid environment introduces challenging security issues, especially with regard to authentication and authorization. This article presents a state-of-the-art r...