In today’s work environment, people are increasingly available because of the vast distribution of smartphones. This leads to a lack of real leisure time without being disturbed by phone calls or e-Mail concerning job issues. In the last few years, several large companies in Germany addressed this issue using more or ...

The objective of the FutureID project was to build an identity management infrastructure for Europe in support of a single market of online services. This requires the availability and large-scale use of trusted and secure identities that replace current password credentials. In the FutureID concept the number and topology ...

Electronic transactions are an integral component of private and business life. For this purpose, a certification of trustworthy electronic identities supported from authorities is often required. Within the EU-funded LIGHTest project, a global trust infrastructure based on DNS is built, where arbitrary authorities can ...

Mobile electronic identity (eID) management solutions are on the rise worldwide and see a rapid take-up by stakeholders. In this paper experts from the SSEDIC.2020 network study and review the status of mobile eID deployment and use in e-government as well as industry with a focus on Europe. The findings demonstrate that ...

This in-progress paper will discuss the importance of evaluation methods in complex large scale projects, specifically those regarding identity management systems and electronic Identities (eIDs). It will depict the advantages of using a Design Science methodological framework approach and show how the EU project FutureID ...

This paper introduces a development approach and a novel architecture for cross company identity management and authentication. It aims to design an architecture, which is practically implementable in the highly collaborative environment that exists in the automotive industry. The paper sketches the conducted marked ...

Although eID technology has undergone several development cycles and eID have been issued to citizens of various European countries, it is still not as broadly used as originally expected. One reason is the absence of compelling use cases besides eGovernment. Current Research focuses mainly on the needs of the user and ...

Trust schemes are widely used by authorities to support verifiers of electronic transactions to determine the trustworthiness of relying parties. With a tuple-based publication, in addition to the trust scheme membership, the requirements of the trust scheme are published. For this, the development and publication of a ...

The goal of the paper is to design and implement a distributed trust infrastructure, which makes use of the existing Internet Domain Name System (DNS) and its global trust anchor. Since it has high scalability and eases the burden on relying parties in turn, allows for highly efficient queries to support individual trust ...