Certificate Authority (CA. On grids, public key infrastructure (PKI) arrangements are used for binding electronic cryptographic keys (key-pair) with respective user identity. In this scheme Certification Authority (CA) has a role of trusted third party and of high importance. It plays a vital role on the infrastructure while not directly being a part of the grid infrastructure. WP7 has therefore considered 3 possibilities for obtaining cryptographic certificates: • buying them from widely accepted CA like for example VeriSign [8], • setting up an instance of CA belonging to neuGRID project only, and/or • obtaining them from the eu-gridpma initiative in Europe. In order to be more flexible, it was decided that in the PoC infrastructure a specific neuGRID CA would be used for development purposes (thus not incurring any additional costs). This CA is provided by XXXX (based on the Open Source free software OpenCA). However, in the PROD infrastructure, all eu-gridpma CAs are accepted.
Certificate Authority (CA. On grids public key infrastructure (PKI) arrangement is used for binding electronic cryptographic keys (key-pair) with respective user identity. In this scheme Certification Authority (CA) has a role of trusted third party and of high importance. It plays a vital role on the infrastructure while not directly being a part of the grid infrastructure. The neuGRID project considered two possibilities of having cryptographic certificates: • buying them from widely accepted CA like for example VeriSign [8], • setting up an instance of CA belonging to neuGRID project only. In order to be more flexible, it was decided that, in the PoC infrastructure, a specific neuGRID CA would be used. This CA is provided by MAAT (based on Open Source free software OpenCA). However, in the PROD infrastructure, all eu-gridpma CAs are meant to be accepted.
