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Enhancing Federated Identity Management: Implementation, Benefits, and Challenges

This title highlights the importance of implementing federated identity management, its benefits in providing SSO to resources, authentication scalability, and standards-based solutions. It also addresses the challenges such as attribute management and infrastructure stability, using existing infrastructures for credential conversion, and exploring other federation technologies. The implications for the HEP sector are discussed, emphasizing user convenience, single sign-on integration, and the need for evaluating and adapting to emerging technologies.

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Enhancing Federated Identity Management: Implementation, Benefits, and Challenges

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  1. Federated A(A(A))I Jens Jensen hepsysman, RAL, 20110701

  2. Example: Shibboleth • Login with home id • Like Kerberos • Issues SAML assertions • To work with web servers • Based on HTTP redirects

  3. Shibboleth IdP AA WAYF User Web server

  4. Shibboleth IdP AA WAYF User Web server

  5. Shibboleth IdP AA WAYF User Web server

  6. Shibboleth IdP AA WAYF User Web server

  7. Shibboleth IdP AA WAYF User Web server

  8. What’s good? • Implementation of federated identity • Needs federation policies • Gives SSO to (web) resources • Scales authentication • Solves the NxM problem • Based on standards (SAML, HTTP) • Wide national uptake across EU, AU, US, … • Can be superfederated

  9. Issues • Attributes • Q: Who can set the attributes? (A: IdP) • Who defines the ARP? • Scaling attribute management? • What can be released (policy-wise)? • Implementation • Actual infrastructure stability? (e.g. against upgrades) • Webby

  10. Making Use of Existing Infra • Using existing credentials • E.g. SAML assertions, or RFC3281 ACs • Standards based... • Convert credentials to something else • Example: grid needs certificates • Example: “export” K5

  11. Making use of existing infrastructures: Credential Conversion

  12. Shib for CC Resource access Password Shibboleth Create certificates instead (portal)

  13. Convert a Credential • Example, based on MyProxy from NCSA • Shibboleth login • “Silently” creates a certificate (and keys) • Adds VO attributes

  14. MyProxy for CC http://grid.ncsa.uiuc.edu/myproxy/ Grids (NGS, gLite/GridPP, SRB) Kerberos or Active Directory

  15. And now for something completely the same – back to Federations

  16. Other Federation Tech • OpenID • Certificates – IGTF, bridge/hierarchies • WS-Federation • Kerberos – cross domain trust • eduRoam • Moonshot

  17. Features (or Not) • Authentication • Credentials: named or anonymised • Traceability: can trace orig user • Supports delegation • LoA and LoWF • Security • Policies & trust • Accounting

  18. Cloud Federations Contrail: http://contrail-project.eu/

  19. Role of Federation • Make use of existing identity management • Provide harmonised accounting • Built-in AA, also make use of ext’l;

  20. Delegation • Of identity (“impersonation”) • Cf. GSI proxies • Of authority • More like roles • Or other attributes • Or specific actions on objects

  21. Authorisation • Access control – granting access to some resource to do some thing at some time • According to some policy • Based on • Identity • Roles (RBAC) • Group memberships • Phase of moon  • Etc

  22. Federations in HEP? • Grids: already federated (eg IGTF, NGIs) • Universities: local SSO • Integrated into UK AMF (= Shib) • eduRoam • Moonshot (in progress) • Outside universities • Er…

  23. Implications for HEP? • Users: • Convenience – single login • And inconvenience – single login • Sites • SEP

  24. Final Words... • Fed = Tech + Policies + Support (sort of) • Give techies time to play with tech • Need to evaluate and interoperate • Watch Moonshot • ... and Contrail of course  • OGF: delegation, federations, cloudsec

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