uPort open-source identity management system: an assessment of self-sovereign identity and user-centric data platform built on blockchain

Nitin Naik, Paul Jenkins

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Abstract

Managing identity across an ever-growing digital services landscape has become one of the most challenging tasks for security experts. Over the years, several Identity Management (IDM) systems were introduced and adopted to tackle with the growing demand of an identity. In this series, a recently emerging IDM system is Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) which offers greater control and access to users regarding their identity. This distinctive feature of the SSI IDM system represents a major development towards the availability of sovereign identity to users. uPort is an emerging open-source identity management system providing sovereign identity to users, organisations, and other entities. As an emerging identity management system, it requires meticulous analysis of its architecture, working, operational services, efficiency, advantages and limitations. Therefore, this paper contributes towards achieving all of these objectives. Firstly, it presents the architecture and working of the uPort identity management system. Secondly, it develops a Decentralized Application (DApp) to demonstrate and evaluate its operational services and efficiency. Finally, based on the developed DApp and experimental analysis, it presents the advantages and limitations of the uPort identity management system.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-8602-3
ISBN (Print)978-1-7281-8603-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Dec 2020
EventIEEE ISSE 2020: 6th IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 12 Oct 202014 Oct 2020

Publication series

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

Conference

ConferenceIEEE ISSE 2020
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period12/10/2014/10/20

Keywords

  • Self-Sovereign Identity
  • SSI
  • Identity Management System
  • IDM
  • uPort
  • Decentralised App
  • DApp
  • Decentralised Identifier
  • DID
  • Verifiable Credential
  • VC
  • Distributed ledger technology (DLT)
  • Blockchain
  • Ethereum
  • User-Centric Data Platform

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