On an innovative architecture for digital immunity passports and vaccination certificates
Abstract
With the COVID-19 pandemic entering a second phase and vaccination strategies being applied by countries and governments worldwide, there is an increasing expectation by people to return to normal life. There is currently a debate about immunity passports, privacy, and the enablement of individuals to safely enter everyday social life, workplace, and travel. Such digital immunity passports and vaccination certificates should meet people's expectations for privacy while enabling them to present to 3rd party verifiers tamper-evident credentials. This paper provides a comprehensive answer to the technological, ethical and security challenges, by proposing an architecture that provides to individuals, employers, and government agencies, a digital, decentralized, portable, immutable, and non-refutable health status cryptographic proof. It can be used to evaluate the risk of allowing individuals to return to work, travel, and public life activities.
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@article{arxiv.2103.04142,
title = {On an innovative architecture for digital immunity passports and vaccination certificates},
author = {John C. Polley and Ilias Politis and Christos Xenakis and Adarbad Master and Michał Kępkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04142},
year = {2021}
}
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This work has been funded in part with Federal funds from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. 75N91020C00035 and in part by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Stimulating innovation by means of cross-fertilisation of knowledge program under Grant 824015 (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018-INCOGNITO) and the Grant 826404 (H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2018-1-CUREX)