Abstract:The security of large applications and distributed systems is heavily dependent on Identity Management models and infrastructures. In this paper we introduce the Identity Management approach developed in the SecFuNet project, which emphasizes the use of smartcards to user authentication and user-centric attribute delivery policies. In current identity models, user attributes are stored in identity providers and any trust relationship may spread user information across trust networks formed among identity provi… Show more
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