National Center for Supercomputing Applications

TeraGrid OAuth Service Project

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Current Status

In July 2011 the TeraGrid project ended and the XSEDE project began. Ongoing support for OAuth use by XSEDE and other NSF CI projects is provided by the Distributed Web Security for Science Gateways project. Contact jbasney@illinois.edu for details.

Timeline

Design Complete (OAuthforTGGateways-20110511.pdf): April 2011
Review by TG security, gateways, user services, and user portal groups: April 2011
Initial OAuth Service Developed: June 2011
Acceptance Testing: July-August 2011
Production Roll-out to XSEDE: November 2011

TeraGrid '11 Paper

Jim Basney and Jeff Gaynor, "An OAuth Service for Issuing Certificates to Science Gateways for TeraGrid Users", TeraGrid Conference, July 18-21, 2011, Salt Lake City, UT. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2016741.2016776

Preprint: tg11-gateway-oauth-basney.docx tg11-gateway-oauth-basney.pdf tg11-gateway-oauth-basney.pptx

Software

http://grid.ncsa.illinois.edu/myproxy/oauth/

Protocol Specification

TeraGrid Science Gateway OAuth Protocol Specification

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge input from the TeraGrid gateways and security working groups, as well as the TeraGrid user portal and Globus Online teams, during the development of this service.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number 0932251. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.