An object-centric solution to Edelberg's puzzles of intentional identity

Brewing a User-Centric Electronic Identity Solution

The growing popularity of mobile apps, the “bring your own device” (BYOD) phenomenon, cloud computing, and big data, seem to have created the perfect storm for traditional identity technologies and solutions. Service providers and certain users too are increasingly aware that the features and benefits offered by an identity solution are worth nothing if a crafty attacker breaks through critical...

An Externalist Account of Intentional Identity

A Smart Card Based Solution for User-Centric Identity Management

This paper presents a prototype of a previously proposed user-centric identity management system using trusted modules. The trusted module, implemented using a smart card, can retrieve user attributes from identity providers and offer them to service providers, after authentication. This paper allows an evaluation of the practical feasibility of the identity management architecture and provides...

The Identity Metasystem: A User-Centric, Inclusive Web Authentication Solution

1. The Web’s Problems are often Identity Problems Many of the problems facing the Web today stem from the lack of a widely deployed, easily understood, secure identity solution. Microsoft’s “InfoCard” project and the Identity Metasystem vision underlying it are aimed at filling this gap using technology that all can adopt and with solutions that all can endorse, putting users in control of thei...

Intentional Modeling to Support Identity Management

Identity management has arisen as a major and urgent challenge for internet-based communications and information services. Internet services involve complex networks of relationships among users and providers human and automated acting in many different capacities under interconnected and dynamic contexts. There is a pressing need for frameworks and models to support the analysis and design of ...