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Enabling the JSON Web Signature Format to Support Complex and Identity-Oriented Non-web Processes

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This paper examines what rules or extensions have to be applied to the JSON Web Signature format so that it can be used universally in identity-driven non-web processes where identities exchange data, documents or attestations in a decentralized manner but do not know each other. For this purpose, the format and the related process must fulfill certain requirements such as identifiability and support for multiple signatures at possibly different points in time. The German T-prescription was selected as the application scenario, since it involves special requirements for signatures, data protection and data transfer. For this scenario, all the necessary applications and libraries are implemented and the process is run through and analyzed.

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This work originates from the LIONS research project. LIONS is funded by dtec.bw – Digitalization and Technology Research Center of the Bundeswehr, which we gratefully acknowledge. dtec.bw is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, 85577, Neubiberg, Germany

    Michael Hofmeier & Wolfgang Hommel

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  1. University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

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  2. Deutsche Telekom Technology and Innovation, Darmstadt, Germany

    Gerald Eichler

  3. University of Applied Sciences Jena, Jena, Germany

    Christian Erfurth

  4. University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Günter Fahrnberger

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Hofmeier, M., Hommel, W. (2023). Enabling the JSON Web Signature Format to Support Complex and Identity-Oriented Non-web Processes. In: Krieger, U.R., Eichler, G., Erfurth, C., Fahrnberger, G. (eds) Innovations for Community Services. I4CS 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40852-6_2

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