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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

The vast majority of applications at this moment rely on centralized servers to relay messages between clients, where these servers are considered trusted third-parties. With the rise of blockchain technologies over the last few years,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Harry Halpin

Decentralization has been touted as the principal security advantage which propelled blockchain systems at the forefront of developments in the financial technology space. Its exact semantics nevertheless remain highly contested and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Christina Ovezik , Dimitris Karakostas , Aggelos Kiayias

The emergence of distributed ledger technology (DLT) based upon a blockchain data structure, has given rise to new approaches to identity management that aim to upend dominant approaches to providing and consuming digital identities. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Paul Dunphy , Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

Web3 technologies have experienced unprecedented growth in the last decade, achieving widespread adoption. As various blockchain networks continue to evolve, we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which they could provide services…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Khalid Hassan , Amirreza Sokhankhosh , Sara Rouhani

Web3 brings an emerging outlook for the value of decentralization, boosting the decentralized infrastructure. People can benefit from Web3, facilitated by the advances in distributed ledger technology, to read, write and own web content,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hao Xu , Yunqing Sun , Zihao Li , Yao Sun , Lei Zhang , Xiaoshuai Zhang

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

The emerging Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) techniques, such as Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs), move control of digital identity from conventional identity providers to individuals and lay down the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Thusitha Dayaratne , Xinxin Fan , Yuhong Liu , Carsten Rudolph

With the advancement of technology and subsequently the age of digital information, online trustworthy identification has become increasingly more important. With respect to the various data breaches and privacy regulations, the current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Dirk van Bokkem , Rico Hageman , Gijs Koning , Luat Nguyen , Naqib Zarin

As the digital landscape evolves, Web3 has gained prominence, highlighting the critical role of decentralized, interconnected, and verifiable digital ecosystems. This paper introduces SPID-Chain, a novel interoperability consensus designed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Amirhossein Taherpour , Xiaodong Wang

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

Due to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a push for `immunity passports' and even technical proposals. Although the debate about the medical and ethical problems of immunity passports has been widespread, there has been less…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Harry Halpin

The old mantra of decentralizing the Internet is coming again with fanfare, this time around the blockchain technology hype. We have already seen a technology supposed to change the nature of the Internet: peer-to-peer. The reality is that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Pedro Garcia Lopez , Alberto Montresor , Anwitaman Datta

Recent years have seen many industrial implementations and much scholastic research, i.e., prototypes and theoretical frameworks, in Decentralized Identity Management Systems (DIDMS). It is safe to say that Attestation-Based Attribute-Based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ruwanga Konara , Kasun De Zoysa , Asanka Sayakkara

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have been the industry standard for securing IoT networks against known attacks. To increase the capability of an IDS, researchers proposed the concept of blockchain-based Collaborative-IDS (CIDS), wherein…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Guntur Dharma Putra , Volkan Dedeoglu , Abhinav Pathak , Salil S. Kanhere , Raja Jurdak

Self-Sovereign Digital Identity (SSDI) enables individuals to control their own identity assertions and data, rather than relying on centralized or federated systems prone to large-scale data breaches. By eliminating centralized databases…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sushanth Ambati , Kainat Adeel , Jack Myers , Nikolay Ivanov

"Distributed Identity" refers to the transition from centralized identity systems using Decentralized Identifiers (DID) and Verifiable Credentials (VC) for secure and privacy-preserving authentications. With distributed identity, control of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Sina Ahmadi

Most user authentication methods and identity proving systems rely on a centralized database. Such information storage presents a single point of compromise from a security perspective. If this system is compromised it poses a direct threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Asem Othman , John Callahan

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is projected to become part of every person's life in some form. The ability to verify and authenticate that an individual is the actual person they are purported to be along with securing the personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Morgan Reece , Sudip Mittal

This paper presents a comprehensive refutation of the so-called "blockchain trilemma," a widely cited but formally ungrounded claim asserting an inherent trade-off between decentralisation, security, and scalability in blockchain protocols.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Craig Wright