Identity Management? Or (Id)Entity Mismanagement?

Roger Clarke **

Invited Presentation to the Australian Computer Society Conference on 'IT in Government', Canberra, 5 November 2004

Version of 3 November 2004

© Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, 2004

This document is at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ACSID0411.html

The accompanying slide-set is at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ACSID0411.ppt

Abstract

During the last few years, the topics of user/password pairs, single-sign-on and digital signature keys have matured into 'identity management'. Unfortunately, the standards groups and the purveyors of currently-available identity management products have built on a swamp.

This presentation will show how some fundamental misunderstandings are rendering current approaches ineffective. It will draw on material from a recent monograph on the topic, in order to distinguish the various competing architectures, and highlight the issues that need to be addressed.

References

Clarke R. (2004) 'Identity Management: The Technologies, Their Business Value, Their Problems, Their Prospects' Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, March 2004, 70 pp. The Executive Summary, contents and ordering details are at http://www.xamax.com.au/EC/IdMngt.html

Clarke R. (1994-) 'The Authentication of Identity and Other Assertions' segment of 'Annotated Bibliography', at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/AnnBibl.html#Auth

Author Affiliations

Roger Clarke is Principal of Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra. He is also a Visiting Professor in the E-Commerce Programme at the University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor in the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at the University of N.S.W., and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University.

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