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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

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 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

In this article, we explore the tension between abstraction and composability in web3 today, specifically within identity solutions, and argue that the current standard DID v1.0 is sufficiently under specified, allowing for many methods and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Shrey Jain , Leon Erichsen , Glen Weyl

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

Digital identity is shifting from service- and network-centric approaches toward user-centric ones that promise users increased control over their data. Despite their decentralised design, such approaches often reintroduce centralised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ioannis Konstantinidis , Ioannis Mavridis , Evangelos K. Markakis

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a new distributed method for identity management, commonly used to address the problem that users are lack of control over their identities. However, the excessive pursuit of self-sovereignty in the most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Qiuyun Lyu , Shaopeng Cheng , Hao Li , Junliang Liu , Yanzhao Shen , Zhen Wang

An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) aims to alert users of incoming attacks by deploying a detector that monitors network traffic continuously. As an effort to increase detection capabilities, a set of independent IDS detectors typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Guntur Dharma Putra , Volkan Dedeoglu , Salil S Kanhere , Raja Jurdak

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) has gained a large amount of interest. It enables physical entities to retain ownership and control of their digital identities, which naturally forms a conceptual decentralized architecture. With the support…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yepeng Ding , Hiroyuki Sato

Building on related concepts, like, decentralized identifiers (DIDs), proof of personhood, anonymous credentials, personhood credentials (PHCs) emerged as an alternative approach, enabling individuals to verify to digital service providers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ayae Ide , Tanusree Sharma

We introduce did:self, a Decentralized Identifier (DID) method that does not depend on any trusted registry for storing the corresponding DID documents. Information for authenticating a did:self subject can be disseminated using any means…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Nikos Fotiou , George C. Polyzos , Vasilios A. Siris

Next generation mobile networks are poised to transition from monolithic structures owned and operated by single mobile network operators into multi-stakeholder networks where various parties contribute with infrastructure, resources, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Sandro Rodriguez Garzon , Hai Dinh Tuan , Maria Mora Martinez , Axel Küpper , Hans Joachim Einsiedler , Daniela Schneider

Advances in emerging technologies have accelerated digital transformation with the pervasive digitalization of the economy and society, driving innovations such as smart cities, industry 4.0 and FinTech. Unlike digitization, digitalization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Kheng-Leong Tan , Chi-Hung Chi , Kwok-Yan Lam

Public key infrastructures are essential for Internet security, ensuring robust certificate management and revocation mechanisms. The transition from centralized to decentralized systems presents challenges such as trust distribution and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Patrick Herbke , Thomas Cory , Mauro Migliardi

Recent European efforts around digital identity -- the EUDI regulation and its OpenID architecture -- aim high to provide an EU-wide authentication framework. However, its current technical and legislative architecture are based on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wouter Termont , Beatriz Esteves

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

Digital Identity (DI) technologies have the potential to enhance the quality of life of citizens through the provision of seamless services, improve the effectiveness of public services, and increase overall economic competitiveness.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Tasos Spiliotopoulos , Al Tariq Sheik , Debora Gottardello , Robert Dover

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

AI-enabled tools have become sophisticated enough to allow a small number of individuals to run disinformation campaigns of an unprecedented scale. Privacy-preserving identity attestations can drastically reduce instances of impersonation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Shrey Jain , Connor Spelliscy , Samuel Vance-Law , Scott Moore

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) provide enormous potential for innovation but a precondition for this is that the issue of dependability has been addressed. This paper presents the concept of a Digital Dependability Identity (DDI) of a…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Daniel Schneider , Mario Trapp , Yiannis Papadopoulos , Eric Armengaud , Marc Zeller , Kai Hoefig