[Planetlab-devel] geniwrapper integration

[rmoran at CS.Princeton.EDU]

Tony and I have been going over the code, but it is not all that clear 
to us either.  I'm hoping Soner can interject at some point and give us 
more of a developers idea of what is going on.  His code is not similar 
to our API or NM code at all and uses a Java GUI that has a lot of code 
within it as well.

We are continuing to dig through it and determine how to integrate it 
best, but it is not the patch job we had assumed it would be.  It is 
going to be non trivial to translate his code to work on our system, as 
well as fit it into our command line setup and GUI.

The CRED_FILE is indeed the credential file we all know and love that 
will be returned by a GetCredential call, but the ACC_FILE I am not 
sure of.  It may be part of the overall credential, but we will need to 
dig deeper to unravel this further.

Lets keep this discussion open here so we can help each other.

Quoting Scott Baker <smbaker at gmail.com>:

> As a first step in the NM/AC wrapper, I'm working on getting Soner's
> geniwrapper working so that I have a reference implementation of the
> security design. Tony and Reid, I know that you're also working on
> geniwrapper integration (I'm assuming into the PLC_API trunk?). Most
> of the issues I've run into have been related to integration (getting
> the right pieces of geniwrapper connected to the right pieces of
> PLC_API for example), so I'd like to coordinate our efforts if we can.
>
> Also, the API document is handy, but do we have a discussion anywhere
> about ACC_FILE and CRED_FILE? I'm not sure which objects in the
> overall geni design these items map into. My assumption is that the
> ACC_FILE is a list of certs for a chain of authorities, and a
> CRED_FILE is akin to a SliceCredential, but I'm not sure if I'm
> correct.
>
> Scott
>
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