Name:GridCertLib
Description:A Java library to bridge Shibboleth authentication and SLCS/VOMS certificates and proxies.
Abstract:GridCertLib is a Java library providing services to create a SLCS/X.509 certificate and a Grid proxy (optionally VOMS-enabled), given the SAML2 assertion resulting from a Shibboleth2 authentication.
The library comes with some example servlets (cf. package ch.swing.gridcertlib.servlet) that provide sample code to use the GridCertLib features in a Java web services environment.
The main use case envisioned for GridCertLib is to provide seamless and secure access to Grid/X.509 certificates and proxies in web portals: when a user logs in to the portal using the regular SWITCHaai Shibboleth authentication, GridCertLib can automatically obtain a Grid X.509 certificate from the SLCS service and generate a VOMS proxy from it. What is more, all of this can happen without further interaction with the user.
Ready-to-deploy code is provided to enable GridCertLib in applications written for the Django web framework.
Created:2011-06-17
Last updated:2017-09-20
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