GridShib:
Integrating federated authorization infrastructure
(Shibboleth) with Grid technology (the Globus Toolkit)
to provide attribute-based authorization
for distributed scientific communities
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Announce [2009-08-25]
GridShib-CA 1.0.0 has been released.
The 1.0.0 release marks the completion of the initial prototype and start of development toward version 2.0.
Announce [2009-06-26]
The NSF-funded CILogon project was announced,
providing support for GridShib, GSI-OpenSSH, and MyProxy.
Announce [2009-04-10]
Version 0.5.2 of the GridShib-CA has been released.
Announce [2008-09-26]
The final release of GridShib for GT v0.6.1 has been announced. Both GridShib SAML Tools v0.5.0 and GridShib for GT v0.6.1 will be included in a Capability Kit to supplement the Coordinated TeraGrid Software and Services (CTSS) stack.
Announce [2008-09-21]
Jim Basney and Tom Scavo contributed to a paper that has been accepted at PSE Workshop 2008.
Announce [2008-09-16]
The GridShib-enabled Abiquo open-source grid platform has been announced. The Abiquo security infrastructure incorporates GridShib concepts and technology.
Announce [2008-09-15]
GridShib for GT v0.6.1 Release Candidate 2 has been announced.
Announce [2008-09-10]
Aaron Shelmire and Jim Basney gave a presentation entitled TeraGrid Science Gateways: Scaling TeraGrid Access at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008 in Edinburgh.
Announce [2008-09-10]
The final release of GridShib SAML Tools v0.5.0 has been announced. This version of GridShib SAML Tools will be distributed in a Capability Kit for the Coordinated TeraGrid Software and Services (CTSS) stack.
Announce [2008-09-05]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.5.0 Release Candidate 3 has been announced. The next release of GridShib SAML Tools will be the final release in this development cycle.
Announce [2008-09-02]
Von Welch has contributed a conforming implementation of the meaningless CA.
Announce [2008-08-19]
Joana Trindade announces the completion of her Google Summer of Code 2008 project.
Announce [2008-08-01]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.5.0 Release Candidate 2 and GridShib for GT v0.6.1 Release Candidate have been announced.
Announce [2008-07-08]
A Release Candidate for GridShib SAML Tools v0.5.0 has been announced.
Announce [2008-06-11]
NCSA staff organize a birds-of-a-feather session and present a poster at TeraGrid 08 in Las Vegas.
Announce [2008-06-09]
NCSA staff contribute to the Building Science Gateways tutorial organized by Marlon Pierce at TeraGrid 08 in Las Vegas.
Announce [2008-06-07]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.4.1 has been released for download. This release is primarily for developers.
Announce [2008-06-06]
SimpleGrid 0.6.2 has been integrated with GridShib SAML Tools v0.4.1.
Announce [2008-05-28]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.4.0 has been announced. See the CHANGES file for details.
Announce [2008-05-19]
NCSA staff will host a BoF session entitled Attribute-Based Auditing and Authorization for Science Gateways at TeraGrid 08 on June 11th.
Announce [2008-05-14]
Tom Scavo gives a presentation in the GlobusWorld track of the 2008 Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference.
Announce [2008-05-12]
NCSA staff will present a poster entitled A Federated Identity Model for Science Gateways at TeraGrid 08 on June 11th.
Announce [2008-04-30]
GridShib for GT v0.6.0 Final has been released! As noted in the announcement, this release culminates a 20-month effort to bring SAML-based attribute push to X.509-based Grids.
Announce [2008-04-30]
Check out these new online documents: GridShib Deployment Scenarios and GridShib Quick Start.
Announce [2008-04-25]
The GridShib-myVocs collaboration wrote a joint paper that will be published in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (2008).
Announce [2008-04-22]
Joana Matos Fonseca da Trindade, a student from Brazil, has been awarded a Google Summer of Code stipend to develop SAML Holder-of-Key Authentication for HTTP Single Sign-On in GridShib. Welcome aboard, Joana!!
Announce [2008-04-21]
GridShib for GT v0.6.0 Release Candidate 2 has been announced. In all likelihood, the next release of GS4GT will be the final release of v0.6.0.
Announce [2008-04-16]
Tom Scavo has been invited to give a TeraGrid/GridShib update in the GlobusWorld track of the 2008 Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference.
Announce [2008-04-07]
The availability of GridShib for GT v0.6.0 Release Candidate has been announced. See the GridShib Downloads page for links to the distribution files and new documentation.
Announce [2008-03-20]
Yan Liu of the GISolve Project has integrated GridShib SAML Tools v0.3.0 into the SimpleGrid toolkit!
Announce [2008-03-20]
The GridShib Project has announced its involvement in the Google Summer of Code 2008.
Announce [2008-03-20]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.3.2 has been announced. This release fixes an important bug that affects OSG-TeraGrid interoperability. See the CHANGES file for details.
Announce [2008-03-17]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.3.1 has been announced. This minor update is primarily a documentation bug fix release. See the CHANGES file for details.
Announce [2008-03-12]
Globus has published its list of student project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2008.
Announce [2008-03-03]
The final release of GridShib SAML Tools v0.3.0 has been announced. GridShib SAML Tools v0.3.0 includes support for the TeraGrid Science Gateway Use Case.
Announce [2008-02-25]
Release of GridShib SAML Tools v0.3.0 Release Candidate has been announced. See the GridShib Downloads page for additional links and documentation. The final release of GridShib SAML Tools v0.3.0 is scheduled for March 3, 2008.
Announce [2008-02-15]
Jim Basney gives a presentation entitled Federated Environments and Incident Response: The Worst of Both Worlds? at CAMP: Bridging Security and Identity Management (Tempe, AZ).
Announce [2008-02-11]
Version 1.3 of the Attribute Exchange Profile has been submitted to the OGSA AuthZ WG.
Announce [2008-01-31]
Release of GridShib for GT v0.6.0 Alpha, GridShib SAML Tools v0.3.0 Alpha, and GridShib CA v0.5.0 has been announced. See the GridShib Downloads page for links to the distribution files and accompanying documentation.
Announce [2008-01-28]
Jim Basney and Tom Scavo attend the TeraGrid Gateway Security Summit in San Diego.
Announce [2008-01-25]
Jim Basney becomes a GridShib Committer! (See the announcement.)
Announce [2007-12-18]
NCSA submits the Subject-based Profiles for SAML V1.1 Assertions to the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee.
Announce [2007-12-11]
Jim Basney configures nightly runs of GridShib for GT in the NMI Build & Test System.
Announce [2007-11-11]
Tom Scavo gives a presentation of a paper entitled A Grid Authorization Model for Science Gateways at the GCE07 Workshop at SC07.
Announce [2007-11-01]
The OASIS membership approves the Metadata Profile for the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) V1.x and the Metadata Extension for SAML V2.0 and V1.x Query Requesters as OASIS Standards. (GridShib implements both of these Standards.)
Announce [2007-10-31]
The OGSA Attribute Exchange Profile Version 1.0 is submitted to the OGF Authz-WG.
Announce [2007-10-12]
A paper by Tom Scavo and Von Welch entitled A Grid Authorization Model for Science Gateways has been accepted by the Grid Computing Environments (GCE) Workshop at SC07.
Announce [2007-10-01]
The GridShib SAML Tools have been integrated into the MAEViz portal.
Announce [2007-09-14]
The GridShib SAML Tools have been integrated into SimpleCred, a component of the SimpleGrid portal framework.
Announce [2007-08-28]
The OASIS SSTC votes the specification SAML V2.0 Deployment Profiles for X.509 Subjects to Committee Draft 02 status.
Announce [2007-08-27]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.2.0 has been
announced.
Visit the GridShib Downloads page for details.
Announce [2007-07-25]
The U.S. federal E-Authentication program has announced a revised architecture that incorporates SAML V2.0.
Announce [2007-06-06]
Von Welch gives a presentation entitled Scaling TeraGrid Access at TeraGrid07.
Announce [2007-05-23]
The OASIS SSTC votes the specification Metadata Extension for SAML V2.0 and V1.x Query Requesters to Committee Specification status.
Announce [2007-05-22]
Von Welch gives an overview of the GridShib Project at the First Annual dev.Globus All-Hands Meeting at Argonne.
Announce [2007-05-14]
GridShib CA v0.4.0 and GridShib SAML Tools v0.1.4 have been
announced. Visit the GridShib Downloads page for details.
Announce [2007-04-10]
The OASIS SSTC elevates the specification SAML V2.0 Deployment Profiles for X.509 Subjects to Committee Draft status.
Announce [2007-04-04]
GridShib for Globus Toolkit v0.5.2 has been
announced.
Visit the GridShib Downloads page for details.
Announce [2007-03-24]
A paper entitled Scaling teragrid access: A testbed for identity management and attribute-based authorization has been accepted to TeraGrid07.
Announce [2007-02-20]
A renewed certificate and signing file for the GridShib CA has been announced.
Announce [2007-02-15]
GridShib for Globus Toolkit v0.5.1 has been
announced.
Visit the GridShib Downloads page for details.
Announce [2007-02-14]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.1.3 has been
announced. (A web-based demo app for the GridShib SAML Tools is now available.)
Visit the GridShib Downloads page for details.
Announce [2007-01-31]
Von Welch gives a
presentation
at the Grid Federated Identity forum at
OGF19.
Announce [2007-01-30]
Von Welch and Tom Scavo give presentations
(Identity Federation: Some Challenges and Thoughts and Federated Identity for Grid Architects, resp.)
at the Federated Identity workshop at OGF19.
Announce [2007-01-24]
Von Welch's GGF 15 report entitled Leveraging Site Infrastructure for Multi-Site Grids has been finalized by OGF.
Announce [2007-01-19]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.1.2 has been
announced.
Visit the GridShib Downloads page for details.
Announce [2007-01-18]
GridShib featured as a Grid Federated Identity technology and Globus Grid Infrastructure project at OGF19 (Chapel Hill).
Announce [2007-01-05]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.1.1 has been
announced.
Visit the GridShib Downloads page for details.
Announce [2006-12-22]
GridShib SAML Tools v0.1.0 has been
announced.
The GridShib SAML Tools replaces the GridShib Authentication Assertion Client and the Shibboleth IdP Tester.
Visit the GridShib Downloads page for details.
Announce [2006-12-21]
The second annual GridShib
Project Report
has been submitted to NSF.
Announce [2006-12-18]
GridShib submits a deployment profile to the OASIS SSTC.
Announce [2006-12-08]
GridShib negotiates a trust relationship with ProtectNetwork.org.
Announce [2006-12-04]
The myVocs and GridShib projects report on
current status and future work
at the
Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting.
See also the GridShib Project Update and the GridShib Online Roadmap.
Announce [2006-12-03]
John-Paul Robinson announces
myVocs box,
an integrated collaboration platform featuring myVocs and GridShib.
Announce [2006-11-30]
GridShib for Globus Toolkit v0.5.0 has been
announced.
Concurrently, Version 0.2 of the GridShib Authentication Assertion Client has been released.
Visit the GridShib Downloads page for details.
Announce [2006-11-27]
GridShib Certificate Authority v0.3.0 has been
announced.
Visit the GridShib Downloads page for details.
Announce [2006-11-14]
Von Welch gives a
presentation
at the TeraGrid Booth at
SuperComputing '06.
Announce [2006-11-10]
Von Welch gives a
presentation
at NCSA to visitors from the
National Research Grid Initiative
(NAREGI) in Japan.
Announce [2006-10-13]
Dane Skow and Von Welch give a
presentation
at the TeraGrid Science Gateway telecon.
Announce [2006-09-30]
Von Welch, Jim Basney, and Tom Scavo present a
poster
entitled
An X.509 Binding for SAML
at the
Midwest Security Workshop.
Announce [2006-09-20]
Tom Barton gives a
presentation
to the Common Solutions Group.
Announce [2006-09-12]
Von Welch organizes a series of four workshops (Shibboleth for Grids) at the GridWorld/GGF18 conference in Washington, DC (Sep 11–12).
A compilation of the workshop presentations has been published at NCSA.
Announce [2006-09-05]
Von Welch and Frank Siebenlist are interviewed by the Globus Consortium Journal.
Announce [2006-09-02]
GridShib attends the Shibboleth Core Developers Meeting in Washington, DC (Sep 1–2).
Announce [2006-09-01]
The nanoHUB project successfully completes a prototype integration of GridShib into its community-based grid portal infrastructure. A brief technical overview of the nanoHUB integration has been published in the wiki.
Announce [2006-08-31]
GridShib participates in the TeraGrid Authentication, Authorization and Account Management Workshop at Argonne National Laboratory (Aug 30–31).
Announce [2006-08-29]
Tom Scavo submits two documents (SAML V1.1 Profiles for X.509 Subjects and SAML V2.0 Profiles for X.509 Subjects) to OASIS on behalf of the GridShib project.
Announce [2006-08-08]
GridShib for Shibboleth v0.5.1 has been announced.
Announce [2006-08-02]
Von Welch edits a draft whitepaper (Scaling TeraGrid Access) for an upcoming TeraGrid workshop.
Announce [2006-06-19]
GridShib for Globus Toolkit v0.4.1 has been
announced.
A standalone Authentication Assertion Client has also been released.
Announce [2006-06-12]
GridShib for Shibboleth v0.5.0 has been
announced.
Announce [2006-06-07]
GridShib becomes a
charter member
of the dev.globus incubation process.
Announce [2006-05-16]
John-Paul Robinson (University of Alabama at Birmingham) gives a
presentation
on Building Systems with Shibboleth at the TERENA Networking Conference 2006 (Sicily).
Announce [2006-05-16]
David Chadwick (University of Kent) gives a
presentation
on GridShib and PERMIS Integration at the TERENA Networking Conference 2006 (Sicily).
Announce [2006-05-11]
The
OASIS Security Services Technical Committee
calls for
public review
of key SAML profiles and extensions.
Announce [2006-04-25]
The myVocs and GridShib projects give a joint
presentation
at the
Spring 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting
in Arlington, VA (USA).
Announce [2006-04-04]
Von Welch gives a
presentation
at the 5th Annual PKI R&D Workshop in Gaithersburg, MD (USA).
(See the Documents page for more detail.)
Announce [2006-03-24]
Tom Scavo attends the
Signet and Grouper Early Adopters Deployment Workshop
at USC in Los Angeles (USA).
GridShib is a potential early adopter of Signet-Grouper technology.
We hope to leverage Grouper (at least) in conjunction with the
myVocs-GridShib Integration project.
Announce [2006-03-11]
A new GridShib CVS repository location has been
announced.
Announce [2006-03-11]
GridShib for Globus Toolkit v0.4.0 has been
announced.
Announce [2006-02-27]
A joint proposal submitted by NCSA and UAB has been accepted for
presentation
at the
Spring 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting
in Arlington, VA (USA).
Announce [2006-02-14]
Von Welch announces the
GridShib CA
(based on MyProxy) at GGF16 (Boston).
Announce [2006-02-14]
Von Welch moderates a series of
Shibboleth "Birds of a Feather"
sessions at GGF16 (Boston).
A report
on the sessions has been submitted to GGF.
Announce [2006-02-10]
GridShib for Shibboleth v0.4.4 has been
announced.
Announce [2006-02-03]
The final draft of a
paper
has been submitted to the
5th Annual PKI R&D Workshop
in Gaithersburg, MD (USA).
Announce [2006-01-18]
The first annual GridShib
Project Report
has been submitted to NSF.
Announce [2006-01-17]
A joint presentation proposal from UAB and NCSA to the
TERENA Networking Conference 2006
has been accepted.
Announce [2005-12-13]
A draft paper
submitted to the
5th Annual PKI R&D Workshop
has been accepted for publication.
Announce [2005-12-07]
The GridShib Project convenes one-year anniversary
face-to-face meeting in Champaign.
The project plan for the upcoming year will be considered at this time.
Announce [2005-12-06]
Tom Scavo and Von Welch give a Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series
presentation
via the Access Grid.
Announce [2005-11-22]
GridShib for Shibboleth v0.4.3 has been
announced.
Announce [2005-11-21]
The Shibboleth IdP Tester is available for download on the
GridShib Downloads page.
Announce [2005-10-24]
The GridShib Project submits a
paper
to the 5th Annual PKI R&D Workshop.
Announce [2005-10-03]
Von Welch gives a
presentation
at GridWorld/GGF-15.
(See the Documents page for more detail.)
Announce [2005-09-06]
GridShib Beta has been
announced!
This is a major milestone for the GridShib Project!
Announce [2005-09-06]
Shibboleth 1.3b has been
announced!
Shibboleth 1.3b is a required platform for GridShib.
Announce [2005-08-06]
Globus Toolkit 4.0.1 has been
announced!
GT 4.0.1 is now a recommended platform for GridShib.
Announce [2005-08-01]
GridShib 0.3 is available for download on the
Downloads page.
Announce [2005-07-26]
Shibboleth 1.3 has been
announced!
Shibboleth 1.3 is required for GridShib.
Announce [2005-07-21]
A prototype of the new GridShib web site at location
http://gridshib.globus.org/
has been announced and is undergoing internal review.
Announce [2005-07-14]
The gridshib-beta mailing list is now online!
See the Support page for details.
Announce [2005-07-09]
A collaborative
GridShib Wiki
has been created (thanks to the generosity of the Internet2
Shibboleth Project).
Announce [2005-07-01]
GridShib source code now available via
anonymous CVS.
Announce [2004-06-18]
The GridShib team meets at NCSA for a brief strategy session.
Announce [2005-06-07]
The first public beta of Shibboleth 1.3 has been
announced!
Announce [2005-05-04]
Frank Siebenlist gives a talk entitled
Globus Security with SAML, Shibboleth, and GridShib
at UCSD.
(See the Documents page for more detail.)
Announce [2004-05-03]
Tom Barton gives a
status report
on the GridShib project at Spring 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting.
(See the Documents page for more detail.)
Announce [2004-05-01]
GridShib v0.1 (alpha) released. Internal testing begins at the University of Chicago.
Announce [2005-04-30]
Globus Toolkit 4.0 has been
announced!
GT 4.0 is an anticipated platform for GridShib.
Announce [2004-04-11]
Von Welch gives a
presentation
at the UK eScience Security Workshop.
(See the Documents page for more detail.)
Announce [2004-03-11]
A SAML 2.0
metadata extension
has been submitted to OASIS.
The specification describes the metadata requirements of a
standalone attribute requester
(such as GridShib).
Announce [2004-12-??]
GridShib team kicks off project with initial face-to-face
meeting at the University of Chicago.
Announce [2004-12-01]
Today kicks off the official start of the GridShib project funded by NSF Middleware Initiative.
Announce [2004-??-??]
NSF funds two-year GridShib project.
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