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Managing and presenting user attributes over a decentralized secure name system

Today, user attributes are managed at centralized identity providers. However, two centralized identity providers dominate digital identity and access management on the web. This is increasingly becoming a privacy problem in times of mass surveillance and data mining for targeted advertisement. Existing systems for attribute sharing or credential presentation either rely on a trusted third party service or require the presentation to be online and synchronous. In this paper we propose a concept that allows the user to manage and share his attributes asynchronously with a requesting party using a secure, decentralized name system.

Managing and presenting user attributes over a decentralized secure name system

Data privacy management and security assurance. 11th International Workshop, DPM 2016 and 5th International Workshop, QASA 2016

Authors: Martin Schanzenbach and Christian Banse
Year/month: 2016/11
Booktitle: Data privacy management and security assurance. 11th International Workshop, DPM 2016 and 5th International Workshop, QASA 2016
Pages: 213-220
Address: Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Publisher: European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
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Abstract

Today, user attributes are managed at centralized identity providers. However, two centralized identity providers dominate digital identity and access management on the web. This is increasingly becoming a privacy problem in times of mass surveillance and data mining for targeted advertisement. Existing systems for attribute sharing or credential presentation either rely on a trusted third party service or require the presentation to be online and synchronous. In this paper we propose a concept that allows the user to manage and share his attributes asynchronously with a requesting party using a secure, decentralized name system.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings { schanzenbach2016,
author = { Martin Schanzenbach and Christian Banse},
title = { Managing and presenting user attributes over a decentralized secure name system },
year = { 2016 },
month = { November },
booktitle = { Data privacy management and security assurance. 11th International Workshop, DPM 2016 and 5th International Workshop, QASA 2016 },
address = { Heraklion, Crete, Greece },
pages = { 213-220 },
publisher = { European Symposium on Research in Computer Security },
url = { http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47072-6_14 },

}