GCube Security Model
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This page describes the security model adopted in the DILIGENT infrastructure
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Authentication Model
The DILIGENT Security will exploit PKI mechanisms to authenticate identities acting in the infrastructure.
Authentication Mechanism
The mechanism used in DILIGENT to authenticate service invocatons is the WS-SecureConversation one. The Java WS-Core container provides a built-in implementation of this standard called GSI-SecureConversation.
This choice is driven by the need to delegate caller credentials to invoked services. The HTTPS mechanism (also available in the Java-WS-Core) cannot interoperate with the GSI-SecureConversation one, thus preventing the exploiting of both mechanisms in the DILIGENT infrastructure. For this reason the HTTPS mechanism has been discarded.
The DL context
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