RCauth.eu and MasterPortal glossary
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- 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.
- EEC
- End-Entity Certificate
- FQAN
- Fully Qualified Attribute Names
- IdP
- Identity Provider in the context of SSO scenarios, such as supported by Shibboleth.
- 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.
