EINLADUNG zum LRZ & TUM & LMU Gastvortrag: Dr. Christoph Witzig (SWITCH, Zuerich) "SWITCHaai: The national Swiss Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure" Dienstag, 12. Juli 2011, 13:00 c.t. Hoersaal, H.E.009 Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Boltzmannstrasse 1, 85748 Garching b. Muenchen SWITCHaai is the Shibboleth-based identity federation of the Swiss academic and research sector. The project started 10 years ago as a cooperation between SWITCH, the national research and education network, and the Swiss universities. Today, 97% of all academic users and several hundred web-based services are part of the federation. The talk gives a technical overview of federated identity, describes the Shibboleth approach and the current technical, operational as well as organizational setup of SWITCHaai. It provides a perspective into the current development trends of secure access technologies, including extensions to Shibboleth as well as an outlook into other technologies such as OpenID and OAuth. Christoph Witzig is the team leader of the middleware group at SWITCH, the national research and education network of Switzerland. He holds a degree in high energy physics from ETH Zurich and worked for several years at CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY. He held various positions in the commercial sector before joining SWITCH in spring 2005. Diese Information finden Sie im WWW unter http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/services/compute/aktuell/ali4049/ Anton Frank