Password-based authentication is the most widely used authentication scheme for granting access to user accounts on the Internet. Despite this, there exists no standard implementation of passwords by services. They have different password requirements as well as interfaces and procedures for login, password change, and ...

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 ...

MyData is a framework and model for a human-centric approach for managing and processing personal information in the context of online services. The MyData approach is based on the right of individuals to access all data collected about them in public and commercial records. The core principle driving the MyData effort ...

In this paper a mobile ID solution called My Identity App (MIA) is shown that combines traditional printed ID documents and electronic identities (eID) into a platform independent smartphone app embedded in an ID ecosystem. MIA aims for transparent identification and authentication in the physical and digital world while ...

As more than half of the EU Member States already have rolled out electronic identity cards (eIDs) [Le13], it seems to be a rewarding approach to investigate whether and how eIDs may be used for the purpose of controlling the log-on process for operating systems and similar local access control facilities. While this ...

Pseudonymisation is gaining traction among modern electronic identification systems as a privacy enhancing technique that can significantly reduce risks of personal data misuse. The recently agreed General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) encourages the use of pseudonymisation to comply with its requirement of ...

This eID mechanism has been built taking into consideration Privacy by Design principles. It uses some of the basic principles of the FIDO model (Fast Identification On-line) adding certain constraints and extending the model to push user attributes. It allows a user to open an anonymous account on a server using a random ...

The economy of an advanced country is, every day more, based on complex information systems and interconnected networks that made its cyberspace. Security in this cyberspace is an essential requirement. In Italy a national lab for Italian government has been constituted. In this framework identity and identity management ...

Against the background of the regulation 2014/910/EU [EU1] on electronic identification (eID) and trusted services for electronic transactions in the internal market (eIDAS), the FutureTrust project, which is funded within the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020) under Grant Agreement No. ...