Category:Certificates

Contents 1 Grid user certificate 2 Grid server certificate 2.1 server certificates from GridKA 2.2 server certificates from DFN

Grid user certificate

Before compute resources and storage resources may be requested, a valid Grid-user certificate should be requested. In D-Grid Gid-user certificates issued by the DFN-Association(http://www.dfn.de/pki/grid) or by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (http://grid.fzk.de/ca) are used. To apply for a grid-user certificate, you must contact the relevant Grid Registration Authority (grid-RA) for your institution. The following Registration Authorities of the core D-Grid partners accept certificate applications for the D-Grid project:

• Forschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ/ZAM
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT/SCC
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum München, LRZ
• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, MPG
• RWTH Aachen, RWTH/RZ
• Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, PC2
• TU Dresden, TUD/ZIH

Lists of additional Grid-RAs:

• DFN-Verein.
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

If you need a grid-user certificate, check to see which of the following apply to you:

1. If your institution operates a grid RA, please contact this RA.
2. If you are already a user of one of the computing centers listed above. Then please contact the Registration Authority of your computing center.
3. f your institution has not established a RA yet, the Grid Certificate Authorities will consult you, where you can obtain a grid user certificate. For this, please send an e-mail to zertifikate<nospam>d-grid.de.

Important: Renewing user certificates If you want to renew an expired Grid user certificate, please be sure that the Distinguished Name (DN) of the new certificate is identical with the old one. That means that in all similar fields for the new DN have the same information as in the old one. Only then you have access with the new certificate to all Grid resources as previously.

Grid server certificate

Before compute and storage resources may become accessible in D-Grid, a valid Grid-server certificate should be available. The server certificate should be applied for by the administrator of the corresponding resources. The D-Grid project uses certificates issued by the following two CAs:

• GermanGrid CA.
• DFN-Verein

If you need a grid-server certificate, please chose the case which applies to you:

1. If your institution is a Registration Authority (RA) for the GermanGrid (GridKA) CA go to Certificates/server/GridKA.
2. If your institution is a RA for the DFN-Verein CA go to Certificates/server/DFN.
3. Else, please get in contact with D-Grid's certificates helpdesk zertifikate<nospam>d-grid.de.

Important: Renewing server certificates If you want to renew an expired Grid server certificate, please be sure that the Distinguished Name (DN) of the new certificate is identical with the old one. That means that in all similar fields for the new DN have the same information as in the old one.

server certificates from GridKA

server certificates from DFN