Identity Management through a global Discovery System based on Decentralized Identities.

In recent years, services and infrastructures have evolved to become more flexible, cost efficient and able to offer better value and conditions for business opportunities. However, the introduced digitalization and explosion of online systems has led to a series of security issues, one of them being the so-called “identity management problem”. This paper presents DIMANDS2, a framework capable of organizing identity data that allows service providers and identity issuers securely exchange identity related information in a privacy-enabled manner while the user maintains full control over any activity related to his/her identity data. The framework is “format-agnostic” and can accommodate any type of identifier (existing or new), without requiring from existing services and providers to implement and adopt another new global identifier.