UC-VO-ILDG-certificate

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Use Case title: Obtaining a valid X.509 certificate

Short description: To become member of the VO ILDG a LQCD researcher has to have a valid X.509 certificate, issued by any of the Certificate Authorities of the International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF).

Actors involved:

• LQCD ‘researcher’ (from a participating regional grid) that wishes to obtain a X.509 certificate.
• A Certificate Authority (CA) or corresponding Registration Authority (RA).

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Steps:

1. Researchers generates private key and certificate request and submits the latter to the CA.
2. The researcher is identified by the RA.
3. Certificate is sent by CA to researcher.

Notable items: At the time of writing, Registration Authorities are not available at all European sites where research on LQCD is carried out.