Inter-institutional Trust Fabric Overview and Synergies EDUCAUSE Dartmouth PKI Deployment Summit 7/26/2005 Presented by: Mark Franklin Dartmouth College PKI Lab Mark.J.Franklin@Dartmouth.EDU
Goals Provide robust mechanisms to enable institutions to trust each other’s credentials: Policies and policy mapping Well established levels of assurance Online services (CRLs, directories) Certificate signing services
Proposed Inter-federations CA-2 CA-1 CA-n Wisconsin FBCA Dartmouth Cross-cert Texas HEBCA DST ACES NIH UVA Cross-certs Univ-N USHER Aero SAFE CA-4 CA-1 CA-2 CA-3
HEBCA/USHER Synergy HEBCA (EDUCAUSE) and USHER (Internet2) cooperating to minimize costs and time to production All parties have agreed, contracts in the works Sharing (to the greatest extent possible): Policy and processes Staff Servers Software and implementation Both hosted at Dartmouth