Authentication Mechanisms in a Control Grid Computing Environment Using Identity Based Identification (IBI)

Abstract

Highly critical authentication in Grid Computing systems required secured data transmission to be protected from unintended user and free modification. The process of protecting data from unauthorized user known as cryptography while protecting the user data from modification can be achieved through verification process. However, most of the grid computing system is still using public key infrastructure (PKI) as an industry standard and certificate authority (CA) server to authenticate users to access the grid resources. Several works have been done enhancing RSA algorithm for grid authentication computing system. Though, none of the work has addressed specifically how to avoid the vulnerability. This paper proposed an alternative authentication mechanism using Identity based Identification (IBI) algorithm with a verification process to ensure the user identification, and carry out the experiment in the GridSim toolkit simulator.