Blockchain Technology the Identity Management and Authentication Service Disruptor: A Survey
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The Internet today lacks an identity protocol for identifying people and organizations. As a result, service providers needed to build and maintain their own databases of user information. This solution is costly to the service providers, inefficient as much of the information is duplicated across different providers, difficult to secure as evidenced by recent large-scale personal data breaches around the world, and cumbersome to the users who need to remember different sets of credentials for different services. Furthermore, personal information could be collected for data mining, profiling and exploitation without users' knowledge or consent. The ideal solution would be self-sovereign identity, a new form of identity management that is owned and controlled entirely by each individual user. This solution would include the individual's consolidated digital identity as well as their set of verified attributes that have been cryptographically signed by various trusted issuers. The individual provides proof of identity and membership by sharing relevant parts of their identity with the service providers. Consent for access may also be revoked hence giving the individual full control over its own data. This survey critically investigates different blockchain based identity management and authentication frameworks. A summary of the state-of-the-art blockchain based identity management and authentication solutions from year 2014 to 2018 is presented. The paper concludes with the open issues, main challenges and directions highlighted for future work in this area. In a nutshell, the discovery of this new mechanism disrupted the existing identity management and authentication solutions and by providing a more promising secure platform.
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Lim et al. provide a definition of various identity models, explain and compare three popular blockchain implementations, and state and compare several blockchain-based identity management projects including Sovrin, ShoCard, and uPort.
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- Authors
- Lim, S. Y., Tankam Fotsing, P., Almasri, A., Musa, O., Mat Kiah, M. L., Ang, T. F., & Ismail, R.
- Affiliations
- UNITAR International University (MY)
- University of Malaya (MY)
- Venue
- International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology
- Publisher
- Insight Society
- Published
- 2018-09-30
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 4-2
- Pages
- 1735-1745
- ISSN
- 2088-5334 (ISSN-L)
- 2460-6952
- OpenAlex
- W2897433711
- Cited by
- 168
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 18
- FWCI
- 24.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal on Advanced Science Engineering and Information Technology (publishedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- The University of Malaya Research Repository (University of Malaya) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › User Authentication and Security Systems
- Keywords
- blockchain, identity management, authentication, self-sovereign identity, digital identity, decentralized identity, credential management, data breaches, user consent
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