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2016-bidding/Online CA

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Introduction

The Online CA will generate X.509 certificates upon user request making available through the delegation service long-lived X.509 proxies.

The Online CA is a critical component to enable access to the EGI infrastructure to a wider range of users. The operation of this activity must be executed in tight collaboration with the CheckIn Activity.

Given the importance of the activity the proposals should include information about an availability and continuity plan for the service.

Technical description

The components that are part of this core activity are:

  • Delegation service: this is the service that provides the actual token translation between SAML and X.509.
    • The service is an highly sensitive component that require a secure hardware setup including physical security.
    • Based on the CIlogon product, and the integration work done in AARC
  • Certificates signing component: is the certificate-generation component
    • Certificate creations must be protected by hardware security modules
    • The delegation service must have a private local network physical connection (or equivalent) with the certificates generation component

Policy requirements:

  • The Online CA must be certified as an IOTA CA in IGTF
  • The delegation service must be R&S and Sirtifi compliant
  • The service should be registered as a Service Provider in a national federation participating to eduGAIN

Service level targets

Availability 99%

Effort