Identity Management through a global Discovery System based on Decentralized Identities

TL;DR

This paper introduces DIMANDS2, a decentralized identity management framework that enables secure, privacy-preserving exchange of digital identities, giving users full control over their identity data without requiring new global identifiers.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel, format-agnostic framework for decentralized identity management that enhances privacy and user control without demanding changes from existing service providers.

Findings

Enables secure exchange of identity data

Maintains user control over identity activities

Supports any identifier format

Abstract

Digital identities today continue to be a company resource instead of belonging to the actual person they represent. At the same time, the digitalization of everyday services intensifies the Identity Management problem and leads to a constant increase of users online identities and identity related data. This paper presents DIMANDS2, a framework capable of organizing identity data that allows service providers and identity issuers securely exchange identity related information in a privacy-enabled manner while the user maintains full control over any activity related to his/her identity data. The framework is format-agnostic and can accommodate any type of identifier (existing or new), without requiring from existing services and providers to implement and adopt another new global identifier.