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In the current global situation-burdened by, among others, a vast number of people without formal identification, digital leap, the need for health passports and contact tracking applications-providing private and secure digital identity…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Gabriella Laatikainen , Taija Kolehmainen , Mengcheng Li , Markus Hautala , Antti Kettunen , Pekka Abrahamsson

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

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 use of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) systems for digital identity management is gaining traction and interest. Countries such as Bhutan have already implemented an SSI infrastructure to manage the identity of their citizens. The EU,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Montassar Naghmouchi , Maryline Laurent

This paper provides an overview of the Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) concept, focusing on four different components that we identified as essential to the architecture. Self-Sovereign Identity is enabled by the new development of blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Alexander Mühle , Andreas Grüner , Tatiana Gayvoronskaya , Christoph Meinel

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

The popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) has driven its usage in our homes and industries over the past 10-12 years. However, there have been some major issues related to identity management and ownership transfer involving IoT…

Systems managing Verifiable Credentials are becoming increasingly popular. Unfortunately, their support for revoking previously issued credentials allows verifiers to effectively monitor the validity of the credentials, which is sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Praveensankar Manimaran , Mayank Raikwar , Thiago Garrett , Arlindo F. da Conceição , Leander Jehl , Roman Vitenberg

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

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

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

The Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a decentralized paradigm enabling full control over the data used to build and prove the identity. In Internet of Things networks with security requirements, the Self-Sovereign Identity can play a key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Alessandro Pino , Davide Margaria , Andrea Vesco

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

Ensuring privacy and protection from issuer corruption in digital identity systems is crucial. We propose a method for selective disclosure and privacy-preserving revocation of digital credentials using second-order Elliptic Curves and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Denis Roio , Rebecca Selvaggini , Gabriele Bellini , Andrea D'Intino

In light of the GDPR, data controllers (DC) need to allow data subjects (DS) to exercise certain data subject rights. A key requirement here is that DCs can reliably authenticate a DS. Due to a lack of clear technical specifications, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Malte Hansen , Andre Büttner

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 (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

Anonymous credentials (ACs) are a crucial cryptographic tool for privacy-preserving authentication in decentralized networks, allowing holders to prove eligibility without revealing their identity. However, a major limitation of standard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Bin Xie , Rui Song , Xuyuan Cai

Most current self-sovereign identity systems may be categorized as strictly objective, consisting of cryptographically signed statements issued by trusted third party attestors. This failure to provide an input for subjectivity accounts for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Divya Siddarth , Sergey Ivliev , Santiago Siri , Paula Berman

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) offers significant potential for managing identities in the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling decentralized authentication and credential management without reliance on centralized entities. However, existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Guntur Dharma Putra , Bagus Rakadyanto Oktavianto Putra