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The terms self-sovereign identity (SSI) and decentralised identity are often used interchangeably, which results in increasing ambiguity when solutions are being investigated and compared. This article aims to provide a clear distinction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Ben Biedermann , Matthew Scerri , Victoria Kozlova , Joshua Ellul

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

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

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an identity model centered on the user. The user maintains and controls their data in this model. When a service provider requests data from the user, the user sends it directly to the service provider,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Frederico Schardong , Ricardo Custódio

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

Authentication in TLS is predominately carried out with X.509 digital certificates issued by certificate authorities (CA). The centralized nature of current public key infrastructures, however, comes along with severe risks, such as single…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sandro Rodriguez Garzon , Dennis Natusch , Artur Philipp , Axel Küpper , Hans Joachim Einsiedler , Daniela Schneider

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

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Daria Schumm , Burkhard Stiller

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

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

Academic publishing, integral to knowledge dissemination and scientific advancement, increasingly faces threats from unethical practices such as unconsented authorship, gift authorship, author ambiguity, and undisclosed conflicts of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Yousuf Khamis Al Mabsali

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

Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an emerging paradigm for authentication and credential presentation that aims to give users control over their data and prevent any kind of tracking by (even trusted) third parties. In the European Union,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Francesco Buccafurri , Carmen Licciardi

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

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

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

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

Authentication with username and password is becoming an inconvenient process for the user. End users typically have little control over their personal privacy, and data breaches effecting millions of users have already happened several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Zoltán András Lux , Dirk Thatmann , Sebastian Zickau , Felix Beierle

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

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