https://github.com/cedadev/ndg_security_common

https://github.com/cedadev/ndg_security_common

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cedadev/ndg_security_common
• Owner: cedadev
• License: other
• Created: 2014-12-16T09:24:42.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-11-30T16:32:16.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-06T02:09:27.443Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 1.63 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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ndg_security_common

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NDG Security is the security system that was developed for the UK Natural Environment Research Council funded NERC DataGrid.  This is the package for common components.

NDG Security has been developed to 

provide users with seamless federated access to secured resources across NDG 

participating organisations whilst at the same time providing an underlying 

system which is easy to deploy around organisation's pre-existing systems. 

The system was further developed in collaboration with the 

US DoE funded Earth System Grid project for the ESG Federation an infrastructure

under development in support of CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 

Phase 5), a framework for a co-ordinated set of climate model experiments 

which will input into the forthcoming 5th IPCC Assessment Report.

NDG and ESG use a common access control architecture.  OpenID and MyProxy are 

used to support single sign on for browser based and HTTP rich client based 

applications respectively.  SAML is used for attribute query and authorisation

decision interfaces.  XACML is used as the policy engine.  NDG Security has been

re-engineered to use a filter based architecture based on WSGI enabling other 

Python WSGI based applications to be protected in a flexible manner without the 

need to modify application code.

Releases

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 * 2.4.0: provide additional M2Crypto wrapper utilties - update synchronised 

 with ndg_security_server to OpenID Provider to support HTTP Basic Auth to allow 

 easy authentication with non-browser based clients