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Project Moonshot

Project Moonshot. TF-MNM. Project Moonshot. Use cases. Grid computing @ STFC. STFC operates the UK ’ s National Grid Service Existing X.509 authentication is too complex for users Goal to simplify authentication across distributed computing Grids

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Project Moonshot

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  1. Project Moonshot TF-MNM

  2. Project Moonshot Use cases

  3. Grid computing @ STFC STFC operates the UK’s National Grid Service Existing X.509 authentication is too complex for users Goal to simplify authentication across distributed computing Grids “We aim to streamline access services using Moonshot technology, which will take the burden of authentication out of the hands of our users.” Dr Peter Oliver, Group Leader, Science and Technology Facilities Council

  4. Console access @ Diamond Light Source The UK’s national synchrotron facility Piloting Moonshot within the PANDATA project, which supports 30,000 scientists at 20+ photon and neutron facilities Federated access needed to physical and remote (SSH) consoles “Moonshot has thought beyond websites, and looked at what is really required in authentication – right down to the point when you open your laptop to begin work.” Bill Pulford, Head of DASC, Diamond Light Source

  5. Sharing data @ Cancer Research UK Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading charity dedicated to beating cancer through research. The institutes form ad hoc relationships to collaborate for research purposes, but when the need arises to share data and documents, each institute can only authenticate within their own organisation. “Moonshot is a valuable enabler for Cancer Research across the UK. It will make collaboration systems easy to build internally so that we can quickly share large data sets between institutes, without complicating the management of that system.” Peter Maccallum, Head of IT & Scientific Computing, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute

  6. Cloud services @ Janet Brokerage The Janet Brokerage works with the community and suppliers to provide solutions based on ‘IT as a service’, facilitating the uptake of data centre, hosted and cloud services • Create efficiencies and cost savings • Accelerate and improve services and add value • Reduce risk in adopting new services • Address technical and business questions • Create a competitive market based on sound technical platforms

  7. The main challenges from our customers Extend the use of federated identity to all network-connected systems, applications and services Support any deployment model: centralised, distributed & cloud Enable the use of any kind of authentication credential Supersize it! Enable this for millions of system entities and users

  8. Project Moonshot Technology overview

  9. Moonshot technologies Moonshot builds on the eduroam technologies • EAP (RFC 3748): strong mutual authentication • RADIUS (RFC 2865): federation between domains To this, Moonshot adds • SAML, for rich authorisation semantics • Integration using operating system security APIs • SSPI: Windows • GSS-API (RFC 2078): Other operating systems • SASL (RFC 4422): Windows and other operating systems

  10. Deployment requirements Most Higher Education organisations are nearly Moonshot-ready today A connection to eduroam A RADIUS server (any modern RADIUS product should support pre-production testing today). There is also an experimental capability to integrate FreeRADIUS with the Shibboleth IdP Moonshot client and server plug-in • Linux: packaging available for Debian& RHEL; Scientific Linux soon • Windows: native support using prototype plugin • Mac: Packaging almost complete for Snow Leopard and Lion Moonshot Identity Selector to facilitate the selection of an identity to use, for GUI environments (Windows, Mac & Linux)

  11. Architecture (1) Credentialing (3) Authentication (5) Attributes (6) SSH session SSH client SSH server RADIUS server (2) SSH negotiation (4) RADIUS OpenSSH used as example of application; many others also apply

  12. Application support Most modern applications use at least one of the security APIs supported by Moonshot Correctly written applications will ‘just work’ without modification or recompilation Less correctly written applications may require minor modifications Project Moonshot is testing applications and sending patches upstream

  13. PuTTY  OpenSSH

  14. IE  Apache

  15. Outlook 2010  Exchange 2010

  16. Examples of other tested scenarios • OpenSSH client  OpenSSH server (GSS) • OpenLDAP client  OpenLDAP server (SASL) • OpenLDAP client (GSS)  Windows Active Directory (SSPI) • Firefox  Apache (GSS) • Internet Explorer  IIS (SSPI) • MyProxy client  MyProxy server (SASL) • Adium  Jabberd (SASL) • Console authentication using PAM/GSS on Linux and SSPI on Windows

  17. Standardisation The architecture is currently being standardised within the IETF’s ‘Abfab’ working group See https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/abfab for documents The key documents are • draft-ietf-abfab-arch describing the high-level architecture • draft-ietf-abfab-gss-eap describing the core “GSS EAP” technology • draft-ietf-abfab-aaa-saml describing the use of SAML

  18. Get involved! The project is Janet-led initiative, with contributions from GÉANT and others http://www.project-moonshot.org/using describes installing, configuring and using Moonshot. An installable Live DVD (Debian-based) is available, in addition to Debian, CENTOS and Scientific Linux packages https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/MOONSHOT-COMMUNITY is our community mailing list We also have a Jabber room at moonshot@groupchat.nordu.net

  19. Project Moonshot Technology pilot

  20. Technology pilot goals • To test the suitability of the Moonshot technology for deployment, focusing on e-Research use cases • To identity what further work is needed to support the wider community’s use of the technology • To plan, implement or support this additional work

  21. Current status • Pilot sites connected to Janet’s eduroam infrastructure • Software ready for pre-production testing only • Production-quality environment due Q1 2012 • IETF standardisation approaching completion • On-going discussions with OS and application vendors

  22. Project Moonshot Future plans

  23. The next six months The primary activities will be Continuation of existing Technology Pilot Improvement and refinement of core software Out-reach to other stakeholders Development the final element needed for a production-ready service Completion of standardisation

  24. Conclusions Moonshot provides a standardised next-generation identity & trust technology Moonshot builds on widely deployed technologies and infrastructure Moonshot provides a cross-platform implementation ready for pre-production testing Moonshot will provide the trust & identity platform for Janet’s services

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