Digital Identity Management and Protection February 27, 2008

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Google Tech Talks
February, 22 2008

ABSTRACT

Digital identity management (DIM) has emerged as a critical foundation
for supporting successful interaction in today's globally
interconnected society. It is crucial not only for the conduct of
business and government but also for a large and growing body of
electronic or online social interactions. Digital identity management
is usually coupled with the notion of federation. The goal of
federations is to provide users with protected environments to
federate identities by the proper management of identity attributes.
Federations provide a controlled method by which federation members
can provide more integrated and complete services to a qualified group
of individuals within certain sets of business transactions. By
controlling the scope of access to participating sites, and by
enabling secure, cross-domain transmission of user's personal
information, federations can make the perpetration of identity frauds
more difficult, as well as reduce their frequency, and their potential
impact. In this talk we first discuss basic digital identity concepts
and requirements towards DIM solutions. We then focus on the VeryIDX
system and present an approach for the privacy-preserving verification
of identity attributes.