SAML, Mozilla BrowserID, OpenID, OpenID Connect, Facebook Connect, Microsoft Account, OAuth - today's web applications are supporting a large set of Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions. Some of them have common properties and behavior, others are completely different. This paper will give an overview of modern SSO protocols. ...

Whenever applications process sensitive user data, secure storage and distribution plays a key role. This paper points out the security demands of an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) application and demonstrates the usage of proxy re-encryption in order to fulfil its security requirements for storage and distribution of ...

The automotive industry forms a complex network of original equipment manufacturers and suppliers that requires a high level of cooperation in development projects. Therefore, an efficient identity management system is needed to control access to exchanged data and collaboratively used IT-solutions supporting the development ...

Accepting arbitrary electronic identity cards (eIDs) and similar authenticators in cloud and web applications has been a challenging task. Thanks to the multiply awarded 'SkIDentity Service' this has changed recently. This versatile authentication infrastructure combines open technologies, international eID standards and ...

Cloud Computing and Big Data are the current hot topics in research and industry. Based on the enormous amount of preliminary work, ranging from grid and distributed computing to data mining and clustering, to name only a few approaches, cloud computing has become a defacto standard for computing in general and data-intensive ...

Open Source Software (OSS) has immensely increased in popularity over the years and it is well known, that software with public access to the sources is on average less error prone than closed source software, especially if the project is supported by a large community which peer reviews the sources [Kua02]. For new and ...

Inter-organisational data-exchange is common in inter-organisational value-chains. Currently information providing organizations enrol users of suppliers, in order to enable them to access their services and information. This leaves some users with the issue of handling multiple credentials, introducing risks of ...

The paper presents results from an empirical study about the use of a single sign-on (SSO) system in an integrated open source system landscape for supporting team collaboration. A portal solution, enterprise content management system, groupware, business process management and enterprise search engine are used. The ...

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 ...