Privacy Enhanced Decentralized Identity System

The rise in adoption of online services for sensitive tasks such as banking and accessing public services, has led to increased security and data privacy requirements. Many institutions use third-party services for logging in and handling security. So you might enter a single username and password, connecting only once to access a number of different government services. This is convenient for a user, but there are some security risks in the way these third-party services are currently implemented. There’s a single point at which an unauthorised user may be able to break into all the services. This research will look at trying to implement more secure ways of offering a user a single login point for multiple services. When a user tries to log in, the system will do a number of checks across multiple locations to determine if the user information is valid. Much of the research will concentrate on implementing this for mobile devices.

Faculty Supervisor:

Mariano Consens

Student:

Partner:

SecureKey Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

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