Blockchain technology the identity management and authentication service disruptor: A survey
The Internet today lacks an identity protocol for identifying people and organizations. As a result, service providers needed to build and maintain their own databases of user information. This solution is costly to the service providers, inefficient as much of the information is duplicated across d...
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| author | Lim, Shu Yun Fotsing, Pascal Tankam Almasri, Abdullah Musa, Omar Kiah, Miss Laiha Mat Ang, Tan Fong Ismail, Reza |
| author_facet | Lim, Shu Yun Fotsing, Pascal Tankam Almasri, Abdullah Musa, Omar Kiah, Miss Laiha Mat Ang, Tan Fong Ismail, Reza |
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| description | The Internet today lacks an identity protocol for identifying people and organizations. As a result, service providers needed to build and maintain their own databases of user information. This solution is costly to the service providers, inefficient as much of the information is duplicated across different providers, difficult to secure as evidenced by recent large-scale personal data breaches around the world, and cumbersome to the users who need to remember different sets of credentials for different services. Furthermore, personal information could be collected for data mining, profiling and exploitation without users' knowledge or consent. The ideal solution would be self-sovereign identity, a new form of identity management that is owned and controlled entirely by each individual user. This solution would include the individual's consolidated digital identity as well as their set of verified attributes that have been cryptographically signed by various trusted issuers. The individual provides proof of identity and membership by sharing relevant parts of their identity with the service providers. Consent for access may also be revoked hence giving the individual full control over its own data. This survey critically investigates different blockchain based identity management and authentication frameworks. A summary of the state-of-the-art blockchain based identity management and authentication solutions from year 2014 to 2018 is presented. The paper concludes with the open issues, main challenges and directions highlighted for future work in this area. In a nutshell, the discovery of this new mechanism disrupted the existing identity management and authentication solutions and by providing a more promising secure platform. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-214292019-05-31T02:15:32Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/21429/ Blockchain technology the identity management and authentication service disruptor: A survey Lim, Shu Yun Fotsing, Pascal Tankam Almasri, Abdullah Musa, Omar Kiah, Miss Laiha Mat Ang, Tan Fong Ismail, Reza QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science The Internet today lacks an identity protocol for identifying people and organizations. As a result, service providers needed to build and maintain their own databases of user information. This solution is costly to the service providers, inefficient as much of the information is duplicated across different providers, difficult to secure as evidenced by recent large-scale personal data breaches around the world, and cumbersome to the users who need to remember different sets of credentials for different services. Furthermore, personal information could be collected for data mining, profiling and exploitation without users' knowledge or consent. The ideal solution would be self-sovereign identity, a new form of identity management that is owned and controlled entirely by each individual user. This solution would include the individual's consolidated digital identity as well as their set of verified attributes that have been cryptographically signed by various trusted issuers. The individual provides proof of identity and membership by sharing relevant parts of their identity with the service providers. Consent for access may also be revoked hence giving the individual full control over its own data. This survey critically investigates different blockchain based identity management and authentication frameworks. A summary of the state-of-the-art blockchain based identity management and authentication solutions from year 2014 to 2018 is presented. The paper concludes with the open issues, main challenges and directions highlighted for future work in this area. In a nutshell, the discovery of this new mechanism disrupted the existing identity management and authentication solutions and by providing a more promising secure platform. Insight Society 2018 Article PeerReviewed Lim, Shu Yun and Fotsing, Pascal Tankam and Almasri, Abdullah and Musa, Omar and Kiah, Miss Laiha Mat and Ang, Tan Fong and Ismail, Reza (2018) Blockchain technology the identity management and authentication service disruptor: A survey. International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 8 (4-2). pp. 1735-1745. ISSN 2088-5334, http://ijaseit.insightsociety.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=1&article_id=6838 |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Lim, Shu Yun Fotsing, Pascal Tankam Almasri, Abdullah Musa, Omar Kiah, Miss Laiha Mat Ang, Tan Fong Ismail, Reza Blockchain technology the identity management and authentication service disruptor: A survey |
| title | Blockchain technology the identity management and authentication service disruptor: A survey |
| title_full | Blockchain technology the identity management and authentication service disruptor: A survey |
| title_fullStr | Blockchain technology the identity management and authentication service disruptor: A survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Blockchain technology the identity management and authentication service disruptor: A survey |
| title_short | Blockchain technology the identity management and authentication service disruptor: A survey |
| title_sort | blockchain technology the identity management and authentication service disruptor a survey |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
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