Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of SecurityArchitecture
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- 05/28/12 16:10:26 (13 years ago)
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SecurityArchitecture
v3 v4 1 1 = Security Overview = 2 * The QosCosGrid stack relies on X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (proxy certificates) which is de facto standard authentication mechanism in grid environments. 2 3 * All crucial communication is secured using HTTPG/HTTPS protocols. 3 4 * Only one service (QCG-Computing) must be started with root privileges. However it adheres privilege separation model (similar to OpenSSH), thus actually only a very small amount of code is running with root privileges. Moreover most of the crucial operations (job submission, stage-in/stage-out operations) are performed as target local user so even breaking the service would not give attacker any more privileges that he already has. … … 6 7 7 8 = Architecture = 8