User-friendly grid security architecture and protocols

  • Authors:
  • Liqun Chen;Hoon Wei Lim;Wenbo Mao

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK;Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK;Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Security protocols
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We examine security protocols for the Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) version 2 and identify a weakness of poor scalability as a result of GSI's authentication framework requiring heavy interactions between a user-side client machine and resource suppliers. We improve the GSI architecture and protocols by proposing an alternative authentication framework for GSI, which uses dynamic public/private key pairs to avoid frequent communications to a significant extent. The improvement to the GSI security protocols is enabled by a novel application of an emerging cryptographic technique from bilinear pairings.