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:[email protected]
• The coming portal:https://tcs-escience-portal.terena.org/
• “Playground”https://beta.confusa.org/confusa
• IRC for developers/curious:#confusa@freenode