eID and Self-Sovereign Identity Usage: An Overview

The COVID-19 pandemic helped countries to increase the use of their mobile eID solutions. These are based on traditional identity management systems, which suffer from weaknesses, such as reliance a central entity provide data and lack control user over her or his data. introduction self-sovereign (SSI) for e-government systems can strengthen privacy citizens while enabling identification also weakest. To successfully initiate SSI, different factors have be taken into account. In order clear understanding challenges, but lessons learned, we an overview existing solutions projects conducted analysis experiences. Based taxonomy, identified strong points, well encountered challenges. contribution this paper is threefold: First, enhanced taxonomies literature further evaluations. Second, analyzed learned. Third, evaluated more recently started SSI in states lifecycle. This led comprehensive discussion learned challenges address, findings.