The Identity Crisis. Security, Privacy and Usability Issues in Identity Management

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of security, privacy, and usability challenges in current identity management systems, highlighting issues and proposing recommendations to address them, though some require further R&D.

Contribution

It offers an integrated study of identity management issues and suggests mitigation strategies, emphasizing the need for future research.

Findings

Identifies key security and privacy shortcomings

Highlights usability problems in existing systems

Proposes recommendations for improvement

Abstract

This paper studies the current "identity crisis" caused by the substantial security, privacy and usability shortcomings encountered in existing systems for identity management. Some of these issues are well known, while others are much less understood. This paper brings them together in a single, comprehensive study and proposes recommendations to resolve or to mitigate the problems. Some of these problems cannot be solved without substantial research and development effort.