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Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Yousuf Khamis Al Mabsali

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an emerging paradigm for authentication and credential presentation that aims to give users control over their data and prevent any kind of tracking by (even trusted) third parties. In the European Union,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Francesco Buccafurri , Carmen Licciardi

Digital identity is unsolved: after many years of research there is still no trusted communication over the Internet. To provide identity within the context of mutual distrust, this paper presents a blockchain-based digital identity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Quinten Stokkink , Johan Pouwelse

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) aspires to create a standardised identity layer for the Internet by placing citizens at the centre of their data, thereby weakening the grip of big tech on current digital identities. However, as millions of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Rowdy Chotkan , Jérémie Decouchant , Johan Pouwelse

Self-sovereign identity is the latest digital identity paradigm that allows users, organizations, and things to manage identity in a decentralized fashion without any central authority controlling the process of issuing identities and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hakan Yildiz , Axel Küpper , Dirk Thatmann , Sebastian Göndör , Patrick Herbke

Traditional identity management systems, often centralized, face challenges around privacy, data security, and user control, leaving users vulnerable to data breaches and misuse. This paper explores the potential of using the Arweave…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Andreea Elena Dragnoiu , Ruxandra F. Olimid

In the current paradigm of digital personalized services, the centralized management of personal data raises significant privacy concerns, security vulnerabilities, and diminished individual autonomy over sensitive information. Despite…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Osama Zafar , Mina Namazi , Yuqiao Xu , Youngjin Yoo , Erman Ayday

Self sovereign identity is a form of decentralised credential management. During credential verification, data exchange only happens between the data owner and the verifier without passing through any third parties. While this approach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Kai Jun Eer , Jesus Diaz , Markulf Kohlweiss

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a novel identity model that empowers individuals with full control over their data, enabling them to choose what information to disclose, with whom, and when. This paradigm is rapidly gaining traction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Alessandro Buldini , Carlo Mazzocca , Rebecca Montanari , Selcuk Uluagac

In order to increase the value of scientific datasets and improve research outcomes, it is important that only trustworthy data is used. This paper presents mechanisms by which scientists and the organisations they represent can certify the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Iain Barclay , Swapna Radha , Alun Preece , Ian Taylor , Jarek Nabrzyski

A key challenge for mobile network operators in 6G is to bring together and orchestrate a variety of new emerging players of today's mobile ecosystems in order to provide economically viable and seamless mobile connectivity in form of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Sandro Rodriguez Garzon , Hakan Yildiz , Axel Küpper

Digital identities are increasingly important for mediating not only digital but also physical service transactions. Managing such identities through centralized providers can cause both availability and privacy concerns: single points of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 René Mayrhofer , Michael Roland , Tobias Höller , Philipp Hofer , Mario Lins

The amount of sensitive information that service providers handle about their users has become a concerning fact in many use cases, where users have no other option but to trust that those companies will not misuse their personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xavier Salleras

The web of today whether you prefer to call it web 2.0, web 3.0, web 5.0 or even the metaverse is at a critical stage of evolution and challenge, largely centered around its crisis of identity. Like teenagers who cannot assess properly…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Frederic Jumelle , Timothy Pagett , Ryan Lemand

Trust management systems (TMS) are crucial for managing trust in distributed environments. The rise of decentralized systems and blockchain has sparked interest in credential-based decentralized trust management systems (DTMS). This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yanna Jiang , Haiyu Deng , Qin Wang , Guangsheng Yu , Xu Wang , Yilin Sai , Shiping Chen , Wei Ni , Ren Ping Liu

Ensuring the timeliness and reliability of master data remains a persistent challenge for many organizations. To mitigate these quality deficits, organizations frequently rely on commercial data brokers. However, this practice creates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Niklas Schulte , Isaac Henderson Johnson Jeyakumar , Michael Kubach , Christian Janiesch

The importance of digital identity as a foundation for digital public services is considered. As the classical, centralised model digital identity has proven to be subject to several limitations, self-sovereign identities are proposed as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Roberta Centonze , Roberto Reale

Digital Identities are playing an essential role in our digital lives. Today, used Digital Identities are based on central architectures. Central Digital Identity providers control and know our data and, thereby, our Identity. Self…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Andreas Freitag

Verifiable delegation in digital identity systems remains unresolved across centralized, federated, and self-sovereign identity (SSI) environments, particularly where both human users and autonomous AI agents must exercise and transfer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 David Ricardo Saavedra

Since its first introduction in late 90s, the use of marketplaces has continued to grow, today virtually everything from physical assets to services can be purchased on digital marketplaces, real estate is not an exception. Some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Abubakar-Sadiq Shehu , Antonio Pinto , Manuel E. Correia