{"categories":[{"label":"Scientific/Engineering","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/scientific-engineering/8"},{"label":"Physics","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/scientific-engineering-physics"},{"label":"Astronomy","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/scientific-engineering-astronomy"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Discovers and deserializes X.509 credentials and SciTokens for authenticating HTTP requests to IGWN-operated services.","skillfed_tags":["gravitational-wave","credential-discovery","scitoken"],"use_cases":["Locate X.509 proxy certificates on a system for use in HTTPS requests to IGWN data repositories.","Discover and deserialize SciTokens with specific audience and scope for authenticated access to gravitational-wave analysis services.","Automate credential discovery in Python scripts that interact with IGWN-operated HTTP(S) endpoints.","Simplify authentication setup in scientific workflows that need to authenticate to multiple IGWN services.","Integrate credential management into data-processing pipelines for gravitational-wave research."],"what_it_does":"igwn-auth-utils is a Python library for discovering and working with authentication credentials used by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (IGWN) and related gravitational-wave research services. It simplifies the process of locating X.509 proxy certificates and SciTokens on a system, then deserializing them for use in HTTP requests to IGWN-operated infrastructure.\n\nThe package wraps credential discovery logic behind two main functions: find_x509_credentials() returns the file path to an X.509 proxy, while find_scitoken() discovers and deserializes a SciToken for a specific service, audience, and scope. It depends on cryptography, requests, safe-netrc, and scitokens to handle the underlying authentication mechanics.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you work with IGWN services or gravitational-wave research infrastructure. The package is stable, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and is licensed permissively. The aging maintenance status (441 days since release) is typical for specialized scientific infrastructure libraries and does not indicate abandonment. Install it when you need to authenticate to IGWN-operated services; skip it if you don't work in that domain."},"id":"igwn-auth-utils","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/igwn-auth-utils","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/igwn-auth-utils.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/igwn-auth-utils/"},"maintenance":{"status":"aging"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2025-05-30","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"igwn-auth-utils","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Authorisation utilities for IGWN"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":95292,"position":13273,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.4.0"}