RCauth.eu and MasterPortal glossary

AARC

Authnetication and Authorization for Research and Collaboration

CA

Certificate Authority

CILogon

CILogon enables users to authenticate with their home organization and obtain a certificate for secure access to CyberInfrastructure (CI).

CRL

Certificate Revocation List

CSR

Certificate Signing Request

DN

X509 Distinguished Name.

DS

Delegation Server

EEC

End-Entity Certificate

FQAN

Fully Qualified Attribute Names

IdP

Identity Provider in the context of SSO scenarios, such as supported by Shibboleth.

IGTF

Interoperable Global Trust Federation

MP Client

Master Portal Client component.

MP Server

Master Portal Server component.

OA4MP

OAuth for MyProxy provides an OAuth-compliant REST web interface to the MyProxy service for providing user certificates to science gateways.

OAuth

OAuth is an open standard for authorization.

OIDC

OpenID Connect is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol.

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

PUSP

Per-User Sub-Proxy

RCauth.eu

The white-label Research and Collaboration Authentication CA Service for Europe.

SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language is an XML-based, open-standard data format for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, in particular, between an identity provider and a service provider.

SP

Service Provider in the context of SSO scenarios, such as supported by Shibboleth.

SSO

Single Sign-On

TTS

Token Translation Service. RCauth.eu is a Token Translation Service that translates SAML to X509.

VM

Virtual Machine

VOMS

Virtual Organization Membership Service in grid computing.

VO Portal

An AARC Pilot component used to demonstrate a Portal capable of acquiring certificates with Virtual Organisation membership information.

WAYF

Where Are You From. Usually a service running in SSO scenarios listing multiply IdPs for the end user to choose from.

X509

Standard for a public key infrastructure to manage digital certificates.