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Privacy-Preserving Identity Management as a Service

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In this paper we tackle the problem of privacy and confidentiality in Identity Management as a Service (IDaaS). The adoption of cloud computing technologies by organizations has fostered the externalization of the identity management processes, shaping the concept of Identity Management as a Service. However, as it has happened to other cloud-based services, the cloud poses serious risks to the users, since they lose the control over their data. As part of this work, we analyze these concerns and present a model for privacy-preserving IDaaS, called \(\mathsf {BlindIdM}\), which is designed to provide data privacy protection through the use of cryptographic safeguards.

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This work was partly supported by the Junta de Andalucía through the project FISICCO (P11-TIC-07223). The first author has been funded by a FPI fellowship from the Junta de Andalucía through the project PISCIS (P10-TIC-06334).

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Nuñez, D., Agudo, I., Lopez, J. (2015). Privacy-Preserving Identity Management as a Service. In: Felici, M., Fernández-Gago, C. (eds) Accountability and Security in the Cloud. A4Cloud 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8937. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17199-9_5

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