Updates from the EUGridPMA David Groep, Apr 8 nd, 2008

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep –  EUGridPMA  A word on its history  Autonomous growth  “Virtual Silk Road” PKI  Plans and updates  Auditing  Identity Vetting processes, AuthZ, 1SCP, CP/CPS doc  Repository issues  CAOPSwg documents  Grid Certificate Profile finally “Published”!  RPDNC requirements …

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – Eight years of growth November 2000: Invitation to the DataGrid WP6 partners December 2000: First CA meeting at CERN March 2001: 5 CAs: CNRS, LIP, NIKHEF, CERN, INFN, UK-HEP First version of the minimum requirements December 2002: Inclusion of the CrossGrid CAs April 2004: Establishment of the EUGridPMA First formal charter and guidelines documents … April 2008: 77 accredited CAs in the IGTF

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – Minimum Requirements version 1 Minimum requirements for RA - Testbed An acceptable procedure for confirming the identity of the requestor and the right to ask for a certificate e.g. by personal contact or some other rigorous method The RA should be the appropriate person to make decisions on the right to ask for a certificate and must follow the CP. Communication between RA and CA Either by signed or some other acceptable method, e.g. personal (phone) contact with known person Minimum requirements for CA - Testbed The issuing machine must be: a dedicated machine located in a secure environment be managed in an appropriately secure way by a trained person the private key (and copies) should be locked in a safe or other secure place the private keu must be encrypted with a pass phrase having at least 15 characters the pass phrase must only be known by the Certificate issuer(s) not be connected to any network minimum length of user private keys must be 1024 min length of CA private key must be 2048 requests for machine certificates must be signed by personal certificates or verified by other appropriate means...

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – The European Policy Management Authority for Grid Authentication in e-Science (hereafter called EUGridPMA) is a body to establish requirements and best practices for grid identity providers to enable a common trust domain applicable to authentication of end-entities in inter-organisational access to distributed resources. As its main activity the EUGridPMA coordinates a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for use with Grid authentication middleware. The EUGridPMA itself does not provide identity assertions, but instead asserts that - within the scope of this charter - the certificates issued by the Accredited Authorities meet or exceed the relevant guidelines. The EUGridPMA “constitution”

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – The story so far … Foundation of the IGTF allows migration of CAs to Regional PMA

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – The IGTF TAGPMA APGridPMA  improve trust building through better face-to-face contact  better manageability of the PMA

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – Geographical coverage of the EUGridPMA  23 of 25 EU member states (all except LU, MT)  +AM, CH, HR, IL, IS, MA, NO, PK, RO, RS, RU, TR, UA, ME, MK, SEE-GRID + CA, CERN (int), DoEGrids* Pending or in progress  IR, SY, MD, LV

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – More growth expected  Pending EUMedGrid countries: DZ, TN, LY, EG  New initiative across the ‘silk road’ countries  Established by Ara Grigoryan and ArmeSFo  In collaboration with NATO Partnership for Peace programme

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – Auditing started  Based on APGridPMA Auditing effort  Self audits, peer-reviewed  BEGrid, DoEGrids, IUCC, TR-Grid, ArmeSFo, HellasGrid, CyGrid  Assessments were thorough  Implementation of recommendations started  Also external audit DutchGrid CA (thanks, Yoshio!)

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – Pending plans: ‘AuthZ op. policy WG’  Discussing extending to AA policy requirements  authZ as important as AuthN, but operational AuthZ policies today are far less clear  minimum requirements on running an AA server may be quite similar to running a CA  ‘There is no other large group of experts out there waiting to take this on’ – we don’t need a parallel I*TF  But: scaling the model is very, very different; …  Dave Kelsey will sort this out …

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – More to-do items  Repository of “good” and “bad” CP/CPS examples  boilerplate text repository  On software used  Activity ‘owner’: Jens Jensen  ‘profiling’ of various identity vetting options  Traditional F2F  Notary-public-supported verification  ‘Time-shifted via implicit RA/Agent anointments’ or ‘TTP’  One-Statement Certificate Policies (1SCP)  First 1SCPs should be there soon: ‘private key is held on a token’ ‘I am a Robot/automated client’

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – IGTF Release Process and Web  Release Process  Releases moved to (preferably) Monday or Tuesday  Documentation of the process still needed Use: mirror:  Web server updated  Room for some additional static services  Input and suggestions are very welcome!  Monitoring and alarms  Nagios: (guest/guest) (mirror at AIST)  PMA Distribution Warnings by 4 times/day

2008 APGridPMA ‘Taipei’ meeting – Apr David Groep – CAOPS-WG  Grid Certificate Profile is now published as GFD-C.125  Relying Party Defined NS Constraints  New draft out on GridForge  Out to RPs for comments and new requirements  Pending reactions (we got one from DavidCh already…)  Authentication Profile Template  Cleanup needed (ChristosT)  Fork off glossary in a separate document

Some dates for you to remember and schedule  May th EUGridPMA meeting, Copenhagen, DK (NBI)  June 2-6, 2008: OGF23, Barcelona, ES  September 15-19, 2008: OGF24, Singapore  Oct 6-8 (tentative), 2008: 14 th meeting, Lisbon, PT  January 2009: 15 th meeting, Nicosia, CY