Sergio Sánchez García

Title: Solving Identity Management and Interoperability Problems at pan-European Level

Keywords: eIdentity, identity federation, identity delegation, interoperability.

Abstract. In a globalized digital world, it is essential for persons and entities to
have a recognized and unambiguous electronic identity that allows them to
communicate with one another. The management of this identity by public
administrations is an important challenge that becomes even more crucial when
interoperability among public administrations of different countries becomes
necessary, as persons and entities have different credentials depending on their
own national legal frameworks. More specifically, different credentials and
legal frameworks cause interoperability problems that prevent reliable access to
public services in a cross-border scenarios like today’s European Union. Work
in this doctoral thesis try to analyze the problem in a carefully detailed manner
by studying existing proposals (basically in Europe), proposing improvements
in defined architectures and performing practical work to test the viability of
solutions. Moreover, this thesis will also address the long-standing security
problem of identity delegation, which is especially important in complex and
heterogeneous service delivery environments like those mentioned above.
This is a position paper.