The MyProxy online credential repository: Research Articles

  • Authors:
  • Jim Basney;Marty Humphrey;Von Welch

  • Affiliations:
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 605 East Springfield Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820, U.S.A.;Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, 151 Engineer's Way, Charlottesville, VA 22904, U.S.A.;National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 605 East Springfield Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820, U.S.A.

  • Venue:
  • Software—Practice & Experience - Grid Security
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The MyProxy online credential repository has been used by the Grid computing community for over four years for managing security credentials in the Grid public key infrastructure. MyProxy improves usability by giving users access to their credentials over the network using password authentication, allowing users to delegate their credentials via Web browser interfaces to the Grid, and supporting credential renewal for long-running jobs. MyProxy helps administrators secure users' private keys by providing an online service from which users retrieve short-lived credentials without distributing long-lived keys to potentially vulnerable end-systems. This paper describes the MyProxy system and its use. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.