Advances in Electronic Identity Models and Their Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 15149
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer security; network security; electronic identity; public key infrastructures and applications; transport layer security (TLS) protocol robustness; authentication and authorization
Interests: electronic identity; electronic signatures; public key infrastructures; verifiable credentials; applied cryptography for useful applications
Interests: artificial intelligence; multi-agent systems; software engineering; distributed systems; formal methods
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Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, various identity management systems (IDMs) have attracted attention because they allow entities providing services to delegate user authentication to other dedicated, trusted parties. Thus, IDMs have been increasingly used, not only between different organizations and control domains, but also to ease citizen’s access to services at a national level or in cross-country scenarios. In this context, the electronic identities (eIDs) of the persons or companies, their identifiers, the infrastructures handling such information, and the legal and privacy issues concerning eIDs exploitation have been subject to intensive research.
An electronic identity (sometimes called also digital identity) is a means for people or organizations to prove they are who they say they are, with a certain level of assurance. While the concept is quite widely recognized, the exploitation of eIDs in real services and different types of digital service infrastructures is still in its infancy. For example, the European Union (EU) Regulation 910/2014 on electronic IDentification, Authentication, and trust Services (eIDAS) lays the grounds for the legal recognition of eIDs between the European Member States. The eIDAS network implementing such regulations is nowadays operational in many EU countries, allowing for the authentication of citizens in their countries and for the transfer of basic data about them to services abroad. Nevertheless, several works and research projects are currently addressing the integration of eIDs valid under eIDAS, with other additional attributes about persons (or organizations) in academic, health, or smart city scenarios, and with other digital service infrastructures.
On the other hand, new identity models such, as self-sovereign identity or decentralized identity leveraging blockchain and distributed ledger technology, are getting increased attention. Such identity models allow identity holders to create and control their verifiable credentials without an intermediate or centralized administrative authority intervening. Although the model is becoming more and more known, significant work still needs to be done in the future in order to make decentralized identity a reality.
This Special Issue encourages authors to submit original research articles, reviews, theoretical and critical perspectives, and viewpoint articles, on (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Electronic identities, identifiers, and identity models
- Trust models in digital service infrastructures
- Attribute linking, attribute aggregation, attribute retrieval, and identity matching
- Exploitation of electronic identities in cross-sectorial and cross-border services
- Decentralized identity
- Privacy issues in electronic identity management infrastructures
Dr. Diana Berbecaru
Dr. Detlef Hühnlein
Prof. Costin Badica
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eIDAS
- Digital service infrastructures
- Attribute management in electronic identity infrastructures
- Verifiable credentials
- Trust, compliance, and digital sovereignty
- Self-sovereign identity
- Privacy issues in electronic identity infrastructures
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