A First Look at Identity Management Schemes on the Blockchain

By Paul Dunphy, Fabien A. P. Petitcolas. IEEE Security and Privacy, 2018

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The emergence of distributed ledger technology (DLT) based on a blockchain data structure has given rise to new approaches to identity management that aim to upend dominant approaches to providing and consuming digital identities. These new approaches to identity management (IdM) propose to enhance de-centralization, transparency, and user control in transactions that involve identity information; however, given the historical challenge to design IdM, can these new DLT-based schemes deliver on their lofty goals? We introduce the emerging landscape of DLT-based IdM and evaluate three representative proposals—uPort, ShoCard, and Sovrin—using the analytic lens of a seminal framework that characterizes the nature of successful IdM schemes.

Subfields: Information Systems, Information Systems and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Privacy-Preserving Solutions for Blockchain: Review and Challenges (2019, neutral): “In this direction, [140] analyzes”
• Data governance: Organizing data for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (2020, neutral): “As DLT ensures decentralized execution, avoiding the creation of a single point of failure or misuse, they are less vulnerable.”
• Transforming business using digital innovations: the application of AI, blockchain, cloud and data analytics (2020, background): “It is tamper-resistant, and the user cannot lose control of the digital identities even if they lose access (Dunphy and Petitcolas 2018).”
• Blockchain 3.0 applications survey (2020, background): “In [83] the authors identify uPort [84], Sovrin [78] and ShoCard [85] as the three most representative proposals. uPort implements a self-sovereign identity system through smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain [86].”
• A Survey of Blockchain From the Perspectives of Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities (2019, background): “, proposed a scheme for identitymanagement, leveraging distributed ledger technology to enhance decentralization, transparency and user control [95].”