TCS eScience Portal - Confusa

TCS eScience Personal Portal

Henrik Austadhenrik.austad@uninett.no

UNINETT Sigma A/S

October 29, 2009

What is “TCS eScience Personal Portal”?

A way to map a Feide identity to an X.509 certificate

• Simple webportal

• Existing and familiar framework (browser)

• Fast

• Third party CA (Comodo)

• Cheap (flat-rate charge)

TERENA CA Timescale

A European collaboration

• Eurpoean Service

• Utilizing establishidentity networks.

• Several NRENs usesame portal.

• Operated byUniversity of Tilburg(NL)

The portal itself

• Runs Confusa (v0.3)

• UNINETT Sigma & NDGF main contributing organizationsSigma coordinates through Henrik.

• Portal ready, accreditation moving forward.

• Ready for pilot users in December.

• “Playground” at https://beta.confusa.org/confusa(NTNU partially added, others are welcomed to join).

The workflow

Getting started - what the subscriber must doEach subscriber must:

• Read the CPS

• Sign contract withNREN (Feide,UNINETT).

• Assignentitlement-attribute(eduPersonEntitle-ment)Requires that the user has undergone

F2F photo-id vetting

• Promote the serviceto the users.

Open issues

• Under what name should the service be known?

• The best way of adding subscribers (videoconf?)

• Other interesting usecases (than “pure” grid)

Demo, links and questions

• Project Home:http://www.confusa.org/

• Main list:confusa-dev@confusa.org

• The coming portal:https://tcs-escience-portal.terena.org/

• “Playground”https://beta.confusa.org/confusa

• IRC for developers/curious:#confusa@freenode