Grid authentication mechanisms survey

Abstract

The security requirement becomes more vital to the Grids. Security plays a major role in providing the confidentiality of the communication, the integrity of data and the privacy of the user information. Effective grid authentication plays a critical role in grid security, which has been recognized as a key issue in the designing and extension of grid technologies. Recently, a lot of effort has been invested in development of various types of authentication mechanisms that offer strong security characteristics for building grid systems. This paper provides a survey of authentication mechanisms that are used in current grids and other distributed system, the goal of this work is to summarize recent trends in this area.