TY - GEN
T1 - uPort Open-Source Identity Management System: An Assessment of Self-Sovereign Identity and User-Centric Data Platform Built on Blockchain
AU - Naik, Nitin
AU - Jenkins, Paul
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PY - 2020/12/4
Y1 - 2020/12/4
N2 - Managing identity across an ever-growing digital services landscape has become one of the most challenging tasks for security experts. Over the years, several Identity Management (IDM) systems were introduced and adopted to tackle with the growing demand of an identity. In this series, a recently emerging IDM system is Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) which offers greater control and access to users regarding their identity. This distinctive feature of the SSI IDM system represents a major development towards the availability of sovereign identity to users. uPort is an emerging open-source identity management system providing sovereign identity to users, organisations, and other entities. As an emerging identity management system, it requires meticulous analysis of its architecture, working, operational services, efficiency, advantages and limitations. Therefore, this paper contributes towards achieving all of these objectives. Firstly, it presents the architecture and working of the uPort identity management system. Secondly, it develops a Decentralized Application (DApp) to demonstrate and evaluate its operational services and efficiency. Finally, based on the developed DApp and experimental analysis, it presents the advantages and limitations of the uPort identity management system.
AB - Managing identity across an ever-growing digital services landscape has become one of the most challenging tasks for security experts. Over the years, several Identity Management (IDM) systems were introduced and adopted to tackle with the growing demand of an identity. In this series, a recently emerging IDM system is Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) which offers greater control and access to users regarding their identity. This distinctive feature of the SSI IDM system represents a major development towards the availability of sovereign identity to users. uPort is an emerging open-source identity management system providing sovereign identity to users, organisations, and other entities. As an emerging identity management system, it requires meticulous analysis of its architecture, working, operational services, efficiency, advantages and limitations. Therefore, this paper contributes towards achieving all of these objectives. Firstly, it presents the architecture and working of the uPort identity management system. Secondly, it develops a Decentralized Application (DApp) to demonstrate and evaluate its operational services and efficiency. Finally, based on the developed DApp and experimental analysis, it presents the advantages and limitations of the uPort identity management system.
KW - Blockchain
KW - DApp
KW - DID
KW - Decentralized App
KW - Decentralized IDentifier
KW - Ethereum
KW - IDM
KW - Identity Management System
KW - SSI
KW - Self-Sovereign Identity
KW - User-Centric Data Platform
KW - Verifiable Credential
KW - uPort
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9272223
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098720304&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISSE49799.2020.9272223
DO - 10.1109/ISSE49799.2020.9272223
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 -