Privacy and Security Identity Management and Privacy: A Rare Opportunity To Get It Right

摘要

Since 1976, when Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hell-man first surmised the possibilities for the potential uses for digital signatures, there has been ongoing discussion of building an online identity management structure. As use of the Internet has become more central to daily life and our financial and physical security has become intertwined with cyber security, the calls to authenticate and identify individual users have increased. However, we still have not seen a single set of answers to these issues that offer a path to an interoperable identity management system that will achieve the goals of authenticating users at different levels of risk, keeping the Internet as an innovative and growing hub for the world's interactions, and building trust among Internet users.