TY - GEN
T1 - Governing Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity Applied to Blockchain Enabled Privacy Preserving Identity Management Systems
AU - Naik, Nitin
AU - Jenkins, Paul
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PY - 2020/12/4
Y1 - 2020/12/4
N2 - Digital identity is the key element of digital transformation in representing any real-world entity in the digital form. To ensure a successful digital future the requirement for an effective digital identity is paramount, especially as demand increases for digital services. Several Identity Management (IDM) systems are developed to cope with identity effectively, nonetheless, existing IDM systems have some limitations corresponding to identity and its management such as sovereignty, storage and access control, security, privacy and safeguarding, all of which require further improvement. Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an emerging IDM system which incorporates several required features to ensure that identity is sovereign, secure, reliable and generic. It is an evolving IDM system, thus it is essential to analyse its various features to determine its effectiveness in coping with the dynamic requirements of identity and its current challenges. This paper proposes numerous governing principles of SSI to analyse any SSI ecosystem and its effectiveness. Later, based on the proposed governing principles of SSI, it performs a comparative analysis of the two most popular SSI ecosystems uPort and Sovrin to present their effectiveness and limitations.
AB - Digital identity is the key element of digital transformation in representing any real-world entity in the digital form. To ensure a successful digital future the requirement for an effective digital identity is paramount, especially as demand increases for digital services. Several Identity Management (IDM) systems are developed to cope with identity effectively, nonetheless, existing IDM systems have some limitations corresponding to identity and its management such as sovereignty, storage and access control, security, privacy and safeguarding, all of which require further improvement. Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an emerging IDM system which incorporates several required features to ensure that identity is sovereign, secure, reliable and generic. It is an evolving IDM system, thus it is essential to analyse its various features to determine its effectiveness in coping with the dynamic requirements of identity and its current challenges. This paper proposes numerous governing principles of SSI to analyse any SSI ecosystem and its effectiveness. Later, based on the proposed governing principles of SSI, it performs a comparative analysis of the two most popular SSI ecosystems uPort and Sovrin to present their effectiveness and limitations.
KW - Digital Identity
KW - Federated Identity Management
KW - IDM
KW - Identity Management System
KW - Principles of SSI
KW - SSI
KW - Self-Sovereign Identity
KW - Sovrin
KW - uPort
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9272212
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098709799&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISSE49799.2020.9272212
DO - 10.1109/ISSE49799.2020.9272212
M3 - Conference publication
SN - 978-1-7281-8603-0
T3 - ISSE 2020 - 6th IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering, Proceedings
BT - ISSE 2020 - 6th IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering, Proceedings
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE)
Y2 - 12 October 2020 through 12 November 2020
ER -