perfsonar development work

[Nicolas Simar <>]

Hi,

few question about this.

1) What is the benefit of going for https in our case?

2) If https was to be turned on instead of http: what are changes the 
developer should bring to their products (web-services or 
visualisations)? Would those changes break the backward compatibility?

3) What would have to do a deployer (someone who has already deployed 
the web-services)?

Thanks a lot for helping here.

Best regards,
Nicolas


Nina Jeliazkova wrote:
> Hi Candido,
>
> The client, directly communicating with the web service (e.g. 
> perfsonarUI) will need to use certificates or user credentials, in order 
> to use the secure connection. Will  these will be different from GIdP 
> authentication?  If using certificates, could you clarify the procedure 
> to issuing certificates and ensuring each perfsonarUI user have a valid 
> one?
>
> Best regards,
> Nina
>
> Nicolas Simar wrote:
> > Hi Roman, Nina and David,
> >
> >
> > Cándido Rodríguez Montes wrote:
> > > Hi Nicolas and Loukik,
> > > as perfSONAR MDM 3.0 is going to be installed by european NRENs, I 
> > > would like to know if they are/will be deploy their services over 
> > > http or https.
> > > Https is not a requirement for the authN process but it is helpful 
> > > for replying attacks, even the authN hasn't been part of perfSONAR!
> >
> > what would be the impact on the
> > 1) the web-service development if we were to use https (none?)
> > 2) on the visualisation (the way they access the web-service).?
> >
> > > So, in case perfSONAR services are reached by http, we should ask 
> > > them to move it to https.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
> >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > --
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