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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

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

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 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

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

The passing of the eIDAS amendment marks an important milestone for EU countries and changes how they must manage digital credentials for both public services and businesses. Italy has led in adopting eIDAS, first with CIE and SPID identity…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Nacereddine Sitouah , Francesco Bruschi , Stefano De Cillis

Verifiable credentials are a digital analogue of physical credentials. Their authenticity and integrity are protected by means of cryptographic techniques, and they can be presented to verifiers to reveal attributes or even predicates about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Andrea Flamini , Giada Sciarretta , Mario Scuro , Amir Sharif , Alessandro Tomasi , Silvio Ranise

As an emerging paradigm in digital identity, Decentralized Identity (DID) appears advantages over traditional identity management methods in a variety of aspects, e.g., enhancing user-centric online services and ensuring complete user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tianxiu Xie , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu , Bin Xiao

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

We propose a capability-based access control technique for sharing Web resources, based on Verifiable Credentials (VCs) and OAuth 2.0. VCs are a secure means for expressing claims about a subject. Although VCs are ideal for encoding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Nikos Fotiou , Vasilios A. Siris , George C. Polyzos

Identity Management Systems (IdMs) have complemented how users are identified, authenticated, and authorised on e-services. Among the methods used for this purpose are traditional IdMs (isolated, centralised and federated) that mostly rely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Abubakar-Sadiq Shehu

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

Digital signatures are fundamental cryptographic tools that provide authentication and integrity in digital communications. However, privacy-sensitive applications, such as e-voting and digital cash, require more restrictive verification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Farzin Renan

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

Vulnerable individuals have a limited ability to make reasonable financial decisions and choices and, thus, the level of care that is appropriate to be provided to them by financial institutions may be different from that required for other…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Tasos Spiliotopoulos , Dave Horsfall , Magdalene Ng , Kovila Coopamootoo , Aad van Moorsel , Karen Elliott

We propose the Consensus-Based Privacy-Preserving Data Distribution (CPPDD) framework, a lightweight and post-setup autonomous protocol for secure multi-client data aggregation. The framework enforces unanimous-release confidentiality…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Prajwal Panth , Sahaj Raj Malla

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

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

"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

European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet aims to provide end users with a way to get attested credentials from issuers, and present them to different relying parties. An important property mentioned in the regulatory frameworks is the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jelizaveta Vakarjuk , Alisa Pankova