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Federation Between CLEVER Clouds Through SASL/Shibboleth Authentication

Authors:
Francesco Tusa
Antonio Celesti
Massimo Villari
Antonio Puliafito

Keywords: Cloud Computing; CLEVER; Federation; Security; SASL; SSO Authentication; SAML; Shibboleth

Abstract:
Several ICT operators are realizing the advantages of federating cloud providers in order to carry out new business benefits, hence increasing their revenues. Nevertheless, how to achieve a cloud architecture able to perform authentication with other installations is not fully clear. CLEVER is a cloud IaaS middleware conceived with federation in mind. In this paper, we discuss an approach to perform SSO authentication based on an integration between SASL and SAML in a CLEVER environment. More specifically, we describe how to federated the Ejabberd servers, on which the communication of each CLEVER cloud is based, through a Shibboleth authentication.

Pages: 77 to 84

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-443X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-204-2

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012