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Authors:
Antonio Celesti
Francesco Tusa
Massimo Villari
Antonio Puliafito
Keywords: Cloud Computing, Federation, Distributed IdPs, Trusted Network
Abstract:
Federation offers an affordable opportunity for small and medium cloud providers to become as competitive as the biggest counterparts. However, in order to establish a federated cloud ecosystem, it is needed to rely on an efficient security infrastructure enabling authentication among clouds. Assuming a scalable federated cloud environment, the management of security can become very hard due to the number of authentications and trusted relationships that have to be established. Nowadays, the latest trend in authentication is the Identity Provider/Service Provider model. This paper aims to investigate a distributed IdP/SP infrastructure based on the concept of delegated authentications, evaluating its possible utilization in a federated cloud scenario.
Pages: 79 to 85
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: September 25, 2011
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4294
ISBN: 978-1-61208-153-3
Location: Rome, Italy
Dates: from September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011