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Self-sovereign Identity promises to give users control of their own data, and has the potential to foster advancements in terms of personal data privacy. Self-sovereign concepts can also be applied to other entities, such as datasets and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Iain Barclay , Maria Freytsis , Sherri Bucher , Swapna Radha , Alun Preece , Ian Taylor

This article presents the potential use of the Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI), combining with Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), to improve the privacy and control of health data. The paper presents the SSI technology, lists the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Alexandre Siqueira , Arlindo Flavio da Conceição , Vladimir Rocha

Digital identity has always been considered the keystone for implementing secure and trustworthy communications among parties. The ever-evolving digital landscape has gone through many technological transformations that have also affected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Carlo Mazzocca , Abbas Acar , Selcuk Uluagac , Rebecca Montanari , Paolo Bellavista , Mauro Conti

The interconnectedness of people, services and devices is a defining aspect of the digital revolution, and, secure digital identities are an important prerequisite for secure and legally compliant information exchange. Existing approaches…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Uwe Der , Stefan Jähnichen , Jan Sürmeli

The development of Decentralized Identities (DI) and Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI) has seen significant growth in recent years. This is accompanied by a numerous academic and commercial contributions to the development of principles,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Daria Schumm , Katharina O. E. Müller , Burkhard Stiller

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

Self-Sovereign Identity is a transformative paradigm in digital identity management, empowering individuals with full control over their credentials. However, the coexistence of diverse SSI ecosystems, such as the European Digital Identity…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hakan Yildiz , Axel Küpper

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

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), a Blockchain-based technology for digital identity management, is a promising concept for handling health data. It could represent a step forward in empowering users, granting them control over their data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Alexandre Siqueira , Arlindo Flavio Da Conceição , Vladimir Rocha

With the advancement in computing power and speed, the Internet is being transformed from screen-based information to immersive and extremely low latency communication environments in web 3.0 and the Metaverse. With the emergence of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Siem Ghirmai , Daniel Mebrahtom , Moayad Aloqaily , Mohsen Guizani , Merouane Debbah

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) 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 (SSI), as a new and promising identity management paradigm, needs mechanisms that can ease a gradual transition of existing services and developers towards it. Systems that bridge the gap between SSI and established…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Felix Hoops , Florian Matthes

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

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) grants holders full ownership and control of their digital identities, being the ultimate digital identity model. Operating in a decentralized manner, SSI enables the verification of claims, including…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Andreea Elena Drăgnoiu , Andrei Ciobanu , Ruxandra F. Olimid

We provide an overview of PSI ("a Private data Sharing Interface"), a system we are developing to enable researchers in the social sciences and other fields to share and explore privacy-sensitive datasets with the strong privacy protections…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Marco Gaboardi , James Honaker , Gary King , Jack Murtagh , Kobbi Nissim , Jonathan Ullman , Salil Vadhan

Best practices of self-sovereign identity (SSI) are being intensively explored in academia and industry. Reusable solutions obtained from best practices are generalized as architectural patterns for systematic analysis and design reference,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yepeng Ding , Hiroyuki Sato

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a paradigm for digital identity management that offers unique privacy advantages. A key technology in SSI is Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and their associated metadata, DID Documents (DDOs). DDOs contain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Carlo Segat , Sandro Rodriguez Garzo , Axel Küpper

Today, digital identity management for individuals is either inconvenient and error-prone or creates undesirable lock-in effects and violates privacy and security expectations. These shortcomings inhibit the digital transformation in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Matthias Babel , Johannes Sedlmeir

Centralized identity management systems continuously experience security and privacy challenges, motivating the exploration of Decentralized Identity (DI) and Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) as alternatives. Despite privacy and security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Daria Schumm , Burkhard Stiller