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UniquID: A Quest to Reconcile Identity Access Management and the IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) has caused a revolutionary paradigm shift in computer networking. After decades of human-centered routines, where devices were merely tools that enabled human beings to authenticate themselves and perform activities, we are now dealing with a device-centered paradigm: the devices themselves are actors, not just tools for people.
Conventional identity access management (IAM) frameworks were not designed to handle the challenges of IoT. Trying to use traditional IAM systems to reconcile heterogeneous devices and complex federations of online services (e.g., IoT sensors and cloud computing solutions) adds a cumbersome architectural layer that can become hard to maintain and act as a single point of failure.
In this paper, we propose UniquID, a blockchain-based solution that overcomes the need for centralized IAM architectures while providing scalability and robustness. We also present the experimental results of a proof-of-concept UniquID enrolment network, and we discuss two different use-cases that show the considerable value of a blockchain-based IAM.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Springer |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Pages: | 237-251 |
| Proceedings: | 51st International Conference on Software Technology |
| Series: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
| Journal subtitle: | 51st International Conference, Tools 2019, Innopolis, Russia, October 15–17, 2019, Proceedings |
| ISBN: | 3030298515 , 3030298523 , 9783030298517 and 9783030298524 |
| ISSN: | 03029743 and 16113349 |
| Types: | Preprint article , Conference paper and Book chapter |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-29852-4_20 |
| ORCIDs: | Dragoni, Nicola , 0000-0001-7411-3831 , 0000-0002-5985-7434 , 0000-0002-3653-0148 and 0000-0002-3860-4948 |
