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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

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

The Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) paradigm is instrumental for decentralised identity management, allowing an entity to create, manage, and present their digital credentials without relying on centralised authorities. Credential selective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Elia Onofri , Andrea De Salve , Paolo Mori , Laura Emilia Maria Ricci , Roberto Di Pietro

The rapid advancement and widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) pose significant threats to the integrity of personal identity, including digital cloning, sophisticated impersonation, and the unauthorized…

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

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

Best practices of self-sovereign identity (SSI) are being intensively explored in academia and industry. Reusable solutions obtained from best practices are generalized as architectural patterns for systematic analysis and design reference,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yepeng Ding , Hiroyuki Sato

Self-Sovereign Identity is a transformative paradigm in digital identity management, empowering individuals with full control over their credentials. However, the coexistence of diverse SSI ecosystems, such as the European Digital Identity…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hakan Yildiz , Axel Küpper

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

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

On the Internet large service providers tend to control the digital identities of users. These defacto identity authorities wield significant power over users, compelling them to comply with non-negotiable terms, before access to services…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-11-02 Mark McLaughlin , Gerard Briscoe , Paul Malone

A key challenge for mobile network operators in 6G is to bring together and orchestrate a variety of new emerging players of today's mobile ecosystems in order to provide economically viable and seamless mobile connectivity in form of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Sandro Rodriguez Garzon , Hakan Yildiz , Axel Küpper

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

Data aggregation has been widely implemented as an infrastructure of data-driven systems. However, a centralized data aggregation model requires a set of strong trust assumptions to ensure security and privacy. In recent years,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yepeng Ding , Hiroyuki Sato , Maro G. Machizawa

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…

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

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) 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 identities today continue to be a company resource instead of belonging to the actual person they represent. At the same time, the digitalization of everyday services intensifies the Identity Management problem and leads to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Konstantinos Lampropoulos , Nikos Kyriakoulis , Spyros Denazis

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