Governing principles of self-sovereign identity applied to blockchain enabled privacy preserving identity management systems

Nitin Naik; Paul Jenkins

doi:10.1109/ISSE49799.2020.9272212

Governing principles of self-sovereign identity applied to blockchain enabled privacy preserving identity management systems

Nitin Naik, Paul Jenkins

School of Computing

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Abstract

Digital identity is the key element of digital transformation in representing any real-world entity in the digital form. To ensure a successful digital future the requirement for an effective digital identity is paramount, especially as demand increases for digital services. Several Identity Management (IDM) systems are developed to cope with identity effectively, nonetheless, existing IDM systems have some limitations corresponding to identity and its management such as sovereignty, storage and access control, security, privacy and safeguarding, all of which require further improvement. Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an emerging IDM system which incorporates several required features to ensure that identity is sovereign, secure, reliable and generic. It is an evolving IDM system, thus it is essential to analyse its various features to determine its effectiveness in coping with the dynamic requirements of identity and its current challenges. This paper proposes numerous governing principles of SSI to analyse any SSI ecosystem and its effectiveness. Later, based on the proposed governing principles of SSI, it performs a comparative analysis of the two most popular SSI ecosystems uPort and Sovrin to present their effectiveness and limitations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-8602-3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7281-8603-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSE49799.2020.9272212
Publication status	Published - 4 Dec 2020
Event	IEEE ISSE 2020: 6th IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering - Vienna, Austria Duration: 12 Oct 2020 → 14 Oct 2020

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE)
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	2687-881X
ISSN (Electronic)	2687-8828

Conference

Conference	IEEE ISSE 2020
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	12/10/20 → 14/10/20

Keywords

Self-Sovereign Identity
SSI
Principles of SSI
Identity Management System
IDM
Digital Identity
Distributed ledger technology (DLT)
Blockchain
Federated Identity Management
uPort
Sovrin

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Naik, N., & Jenkins, P. (2020). Governing principles of self-sovereign identity applied to blockchain enabled privacy preserving identity management systems. In 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE) (Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE)). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSE49799.2020.9272212

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Naik, N & Jenkins, P 2020, Governing principles of self-sovereign identity applied to blockchain enabled privacy preserving identity management systems. in 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE). Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., IEEE ISSE 2020, Vienna, Austria, 12/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSE49799.2020.9272212

Governing principles of self-sovereign identity applied to blockchain enabled privacy preserving identity management systems. / Naik, Nitin; Jenkins, Paul.
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