Shibboleth & grid computing

[Tim]

Seib, Broc <bseib <at> purdue.edu> writes:

> 
> Hi Brad, Paul, et al., 
> 
> Have you seen shibboleth? (At least to steal some good ideas?)
[...]
> The shibboleth architecture gets closer to my own wishlist -- where the
> user has the benefit of controlling their degree of anonymity and
> privacy while minimizing repeated authentications. Your identity merely
> has attributes which third parties can request or assert.
> 
> This OpenID topic interests me in the world of grid computing, where
> "virtual organizations" cross many real organizational boundaries. Here
> we wish to allow people to access to computing resources using existing
> (decentralized) identities, and letting organizations use existing
> authentication systems they already have in place.
[...]

Hi, there is an integration effort underway between Shibboleth and Globus
middleware that you may be interested in.

See http://gridshib.globus.org/
and https://authdev.it.ohio-state.edu/twiki/bin/view/GridShib/Profiles

Tim