Abstract: Identity management solutions are generally designed to facilitate the management of digital identities and operations such as authentication, and have been widely used in real-world applications. In recent years, there have been attempts to introduce blockchain-based identity management solutions, which allow the user to take over control of his/her own identity (i.e. self-sovereign identity). In this paper, we provide an in-depth review of existing blockchain-based identity management papers and patents published between May 2017 and January 2020. Based on the analysis of the literature, we identify potential research gaps and opportunities, which will hopefully help inform future research agenda.
Project Problem Domain: Blockchain Identity management can be used to verify and authenticate their own identity in the real-time world
How do we design a scalable mechanism that also takes into consideration the differing storage capability of different users?
Background/Context/Description: Digital identity plays an increasingly important role in our interconnected, digitalized society. For example, most of us have a number of digital identities, associated with our workplace, our personal life, and other professional-related activity. This partly contributes to the growing reliance on identity information management (also referred to as identity management, identity management and access control, etc, in the literature), designed to manage and secure our identity information and to provide relevant services.
Project Aim/Objectives:
In a typical blockchain-based identity management system, there are a large number of distributed nodes. Such nodes can be utilized to provide distributed storage, reliable access and computation capabilities. The user in such a system acts as a node in the network; thus, allowing the storage of sensitive user data to shift from servers (in the conventional identity management solutions) to user
Resources:
Library of CSU and also used articles from primo search
Alignment of the project with course specialisation
Networking and securiy
REFERENCES
- K. Madisetti, A. Bahga, Method and system for blockchain-based combined identity, ownership, integrity and custody management, uS Patent App. 16/118,599 (Dec. 27 2018).
- K. Madisetti, A. Bahga, Method and System for Identity and Access Management for Blockchain Interoperability, uS Patent App. 15/830,099 (Oct. 4 2018).
- Manohar, J. Briggs, Identity Management in the Age of Blockchain 3.0.
- Tobin, D. Reed, The Inevitable Rise of Self-Sovereign Identity, The Sovrin Foundation vol. 29.
- J. Wack, E. M. Scheidt, Identity management distributed ledger and blockchain, uS Patent App. 15/703,433 (Sep. 20 2018).