Published April 11, 2022 | Version v1
Technical note Open

Guidelines for Secure Operation of Attribute Authorities and issuers of statements for entities

Creators

  • 1. Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2. STFC UK Research and Innovation, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
  • 3. SURF, The Netherlands
  • 4. Jisc, Harwell, United Kingdom
  • 5. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
  • 6. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Contributors

  • 1. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • 2. GÉANT Association, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 3. FZ Jülich, Jülich, Germany
  • 4. Max Planck Gesellschaft, GermanyMünchen,

Description

These guidelines describe the minimum requirements and recommendations for the secure operation of attribute authorities and similar services that make statements about an entity based on well-defined attributes. Adherence to these guidelines may help to establish trust between communities, operators of attribute authorities and issuers, and Relying Parties, infrastructures, and service providers. This document does not define an accreditation process.

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Technical note: https://aarc-community.org/guidelines/aarc-g071/ (URL)

Funding

EOSC-hub – Integrating and managing services for the European Open Science Cloud 777536
European Commission
AARC2 – Authentication and Authorisation For Research and Collaboration 730941
European Commission
GN4-3 – Horizon 2020: H2020-SGA-INFRA-GEANT-2018 (Topic [a] Research and Education Networking) 856726
European Commission

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