Dynamic and fine-grained authentication and authorization architecture for grid computing

The Globus Toolkit makes it very easy and comfortable for grid users to develop and deploy grid service. As for the security mechanism, however, only static authentication and coarse-grained authorization mechanism is provided in current Globus Toolkit. In this paper we address the limitations of current security mechanism in the Globus Toolkit and propose a new architecture which provides fine-grained and flexible security mechanism. To implement this without modifying existing components, we make use of the Aspect-Oriented Programming technique.