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The Security Subsystem

You can find a draft of the security architecture document at:
 

https://edms.cern.ch/document/487004/

The aims of the security systems are:
  • Modular: add new modules later
  • Agnostic: modules will evolve
  • Standard: start with transport-level security but intend to move to
    WS-Security when it matures
  • Interoperable: at least for AuthN & AuthZ
The security system is applied to Web-services and hosted in containers and applications (Apache Axis, Tomcat) as additional modules.

 
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