EMI Security Architecture

This document describes the various architectures of the three middlewares that comprise the EMI software stack. It also outlines the common efforts in the security area that allow interoperability between these middlewares. The assessment of the EMI Security presented in this document was performed internally by members of the Security Area of the EMI project

Key aspects of the UNICORE 6 security model

This paper presents the security architecture of the sixth version of the UNICORE grid middleware The sixth iteration of UNICORE introduced a number of new security-related solutions which make UNICORE distinguishable from the other grid middleware as Globus gLite or NorduGrid ARC and these are presented in this paper The paper discusses the low level security users authentication non-repudiation control and trust delegation The UNICORE unique approach to the challenge of trust delegation is called explicit trust delegation (ETD) discussion of this constitutes the most significant and extensive part of this paper ETD is compared with the popular grid security Infrastructure (GSI) High level security services (such as authorization services) are not described in this paper (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserve