Identity Mixer

Builds an integrated e-authorization and e-authentication platform and demonstrates its feasibility by conduction two pilots. The use cases for the pilots are a bio-security incident response system in Australia and an e-health and assisted living system in Germany.

IBM Identity Mixer is the central, privacy-friendly authentication component of the AU2EU platform.

Builds a comprehensive, flexible, privacy-aware and ubiquitously usable identity management infrastructure for Europe. It integrates IBM Identity Mixer and existing eID technology, trust infrastructures, emerging federated identity management services, and modern credential technologies.

The project is further concerned with solving existing gaps between the different eID technologies. In particular, cryptographic algorithms that augment and extend IBM Identity Mixer are researched, including audit possibilities, revocation, and back-up solutions.

The ABC4Trust project addresses the federation and interchangeability of technologies that support trustworthy yet privacy-preserving Attribute-based Credentials (ABC), mainly IBM Identity Mixer and Microsoft's U-Prove.

The project puts forth a general architecture and a policy language for privacy-preserving authentication that unifies the different concepts behind attribute-based credentials. The project tests and validated the architecture and its reference implementation by two pilots at educational institutions.

A Future Internet Public-Private Partnership that creates an open cloud-based infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of Future Internet applications and services.

Together with other partners, IBM contributed the Privacy-Preserving Authentication generic enabler that implements the various components of a privacy-preserving authentication system using IBM Identity Mixer. In particular, it provides code for deployment of Privacy-ABC issuers, users, and verifiers in the cloud.

Developed one of the first working prototypes of a privacy-enhancing Identity Management System. To foster market adoption, novel solutions for managing identities had been demonstrated in challenging real-world scenarios, e.g., from Internet Communication, Airline Passenger Processes, Location-Based Services, and Collaborative e-Learning.

PRIME designed and prototyped the first architecture for privacy-friendly authentication and authorization. This was the first time the cryptographic protocols of IBM Identity Mixer were used in a larger context and trialed in applications.