Identity management is a fundamental component in securing online services. Isolated and centralized identity models have been applied within organizations. Moreover, identity federations connect digital identities across trust domain boundaries. These traditional models have been thoroughly studied with regard to trust requirements. The recently emerging blockchain technology enables a novel decentralized identity management model that targets user-centricity and eliminates the identity provider as a trusted third party. The result is a substantially different set of entities with mutual trust requirements. In this paper, we analyze decentralized identity management based on blockchain through defining topology patterns. These patterns depict schematically the decentralized setting and its main actors. We study trust requirements for the devised patterns and, finally, compare the result to traditional models. Our contribution enables a clear view of differences in trust requirements within the various models.
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Grüner, A., Mühle, A., Gayvoronskaya, T., & Meinel, C. (2020). A Comparative Analysis of Trust Requirements in Decentralized Identity Management. In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Vol. 926, pp. 200–213). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15032-7_18
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