Pseudonymous mobile identity architecture based on government-supported PKI

Abstract

An electronic ID scheme must be usable in a wide range of circumstances, especially in ordinary situations, such as proving your right to a concession ticket on a bus. One of the problems to be addressed is privacy. Indeed, when documents are read by electronic means, a lot of information is not only revealed, but can be copied, stored and processed without our consent. Another issue is ubiquity, reliability and acceptance of the involved technology. In this paper we attempt to address these issues by combining an officially recognised national mobile e-ID infrastructure with identification procedures based on controlled identity revelation. We report a prototype implementation of an identity tool on a mobile phone with a PKI-SIM card. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.