A Multifactor Credential Translation and Verification Service for Computational Grid
Abstract The authentication mechanism in Grid need to support local heterogeneity and need to support n-way security context. The objective of this work is focused on the interoperable issue in the existing Grid Security Infrastructure. An adaptable Multi factor Authentication framework for computational grid is proposed in this work and it is compared with existing Credential Federation Systems. The proposed system is designed using the concept of Service Oriented Architecture SOA a specific type of Distributed System in which the agents are software service which are designated to perform the complicated time and resource consuming task of Credential management and Credential Validation service. GSI does not support Kerberos based authentication. Hence in order to integrate Kerberos with GSI, a Credential Translation Service CTS is designed and implemented. This feature is incorporated in this design by developing a service that can handle Kerberos token and PKI Certificate. The performance of the proposed system is compared with existing credential federation systems.