Proxy Certificate Trust List for Grid Computing

This paper proposes Proxy Certificate Trust List (PCTL) to efficiently record trusted delegation trace for grid computing. Our solution based on PCTL provides functions as follows: (1) On-demand inquiry service for real time delegation information of grid computing underway; (2) Lightweight mutual authentication that is beneficial for proxy nodes with short life span or limited computation power as wireless devices in mobile computing; (3) A kind of revocation mechanism for proxy certificates to improve the security and availability of grid computing.