The InCommon Certificate Service will be one of the topics discussed at the upcoming Symposium on Authentication Technologies for Research and Education, October 4 at Texas Tech University. The symposium is co-sponsored by the International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF) and the Open Grid Forum.
The symposium will focus on working solutions in campus security infrastructures that can contribute to solutions for simple but effective provision of strong authentication in research, educational, government and industrial settings.
Paul Caskey and Jim Basney, both members of the InCommon Technical Advisory Committee, will provide information about the Cert Service, which was created by research and higher education to provide unlimited SSL and personal certificates for one annual fee.
Other presentations will touch on InCommon, including a demonstration of CILogon: Campus Authentication to CyberInfrastructure; and a discussion about identity-based services for U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories and their collaborators.
Following the one-day symposium, IGTF and TAGPMA (The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority) will hold two days of meetings in conjunction with the organizations' fifth anniversary.
Details are available at http://bit.ly/8ZPBq6