DHPC Technical Report DHPC-095
Security in Computational Grid Systems
K.A. Hawick
Archived: 30 October 2000
Abstract
Computational Grid systems for resource sharing and business service
exchange are becoming widespread and are linking together
computtaional systems that know no administrative boundaries.
Consequently the problems of securely and irrepudiably exchanging
information across wide areas need to be solved. This note presents
a review of the issues of security and authentication for wide area
computational grid systems and discusses some of the technologies and
solutions available at present for building secure systems.
Integration technologies such as Java and LDAP can be used for
interoperable systems that exchange digital signatures and
certificates and which manage secure and encrypted communications in
software. New technologies such as XML are emerging as good data
exchange vehicles, and security can be incorporated into an XML
exchange framework for computational grid systems.
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