Abstract

Proxy credentials are commonly used in security systems when one entity wishes to grant to another entity some set of its privileges. We have defined and standardized X. 509 Proxy Certificates for the purpose of providing restricted proxying and delegation within a PKI-based authentication system. We present here our motivations for this work coming from our efforts in Grid security, the Proxy Certificate itself, and our experiences in implementation and deployment.

Date

April 12, 2004

Authors

Von Welch, Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Olle Mulmo, Laura Pearlman, Steven Tuecke, Jarek Gawor, Sam Meder, Frank Siebenlist

Journal

3rd annual PKI R&D workshop

Volume

14

Issue

1

Pages

1-17