Improved Identity Management with Verifiable Credentials and FIDO | Zendy

David Chadwick | Zendy; Romain Laborde | Zendy; Arnaud Oglaza | Zendy; Rémi Venant | Zendy; Samer Wazan | Zendy; Manreet Nijjar | Zendy

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Improved Identity Management with Verifiable Credentials and FIDO

Author(s) -

David Chadwick,

Romain Laborde,

Arnaud Oglaza,

Rémi Venant,

Samer Wazan,

Manreet Nijjar

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

ieee communications standards magazine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.509

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 2471-2833

pISSN - 2471-2825

DOI - 10.1109/mcomstd.001.1900020

Subject(s) - computer science , verifiable secret sharing , authentication (law) , identity (music) , password , identity management , order (exchange) , authorization , computer security , protocol (science) , medicine , business , physics , set (abstract data type) , finance , acoustics , programming language , alternative medicine , pathology

We describe how FIDO and W3C VCs can overcome the problems of existing identity management systems. We describe our conceptual model and architecture, and the protocol we used by extending FIDO's UAF in order to provide both strong authentication and strong authorization. We built a pilot implementation for U.K. NHS patients to validate our implementation. Patients were able to use a mobile phone with a fingerprint reader to access restricted NHS sites in order to make and cancel appointments and order repeat prescription drugs. Our initial user trials with 10 U.K. NHS patients found the system to be easy to use, and fingerprints to be preferable to using usernames and passwords for authentication.

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