From: Marcel Poul Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:48:37 +0000 (+0000) Subject: introduce caNl better X-Git-Tag: merge_torque_to_head_after~31 X-Git-Url: http://scientific.zcu.cz/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=61d40ec4882137f47742068510a26df9facf9ca1;p=jra1mw.git introduce caNl better --- diff --git a/emi.canl.canl-c/doc/src/canl-introduction.tex b/emi.canl.canl-c/doc/src/canl-introduction.tex index 24813b2..4be6678 100644 --- a/emi.canl.canl-c/doc/src/canl-introduction.tex +++ b/emi.canl.canl-c/doc/src/canl-introduction.tex @@ -22,16 +22,25 @@ This document serves as a developer's guide and could be seen as an API reference too, even though comments in the header files may give the reader better insights into that matter. -The \CANL API can be devided by functionality into two parts: +Common Authentication Library (\CANL for short) +CANL was designed to provide common security layer support in grid +applications. It is largely based on existing code (VOMS, LB). Its +simple API can be devided by functionality into two parts: \begin{itemize} \item \textit{\CANL Main API} is used to establish (secure) client-server -connection with one or both sides authenticated, send or receive data, -\item \textit{\CANL Certificate API} +connection with one or both sides authenticated, send or receive data. +As will be described in~\ref{s:cs-auth-conn}, most of the \textit{Main API} +is not directly dependent on cryptography toolkit (SSL implementation) It is +also internaly plugin-based and therefore other secutity mechanisms support can +be added in future. +\item \textit{\CANL Certificate API} allows certificate and proxy management \eg +proxy creation, signing, etc. We may think of \textit{Certificate API} as the +second level of \textit{Main API} \end{itemize} -The \textit{Main API} is independent from the \textit{Certificate API} -, but the latter -one shares a number of data types and functions with the first one. + +Currently there is EMI Product Team assigned to \CANL development with three +subgroups for each language binding. \subsection{Language Bindings} \CANL is developed in C language as well as C++ and Java language bindings,