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myIdP - The Personal Attribute Hub

Authors:
Annett Laube
Severin Hauser

Keywords: electronic identity; SuisseID; attribute authority; e-form

Abstract:
The myIdP service is an extension to the Swiss eID infrastructure with the aim to provide a service that handles personal attributes (like address, telephone number, email), which are neither part of the SuisseID identity providers nor of a Claim Assertion Services (CAS) because there is no official authority owning and certifying these data. The myIdP service is a (pseudo-)local CAS that can reuse data, which a user has already given to an application via an Internet transaction. The data is thus validated by the web application before being transferred - as SAML 2.0 attribute assertion - to the myIdP service. The myIdP service comes in two flavors with different trust relations: the attribute provider and the claim proxy. The attribute provider unites several claims for a given attribute and provides an optional quality assessment before sending it to a requesting web application. A trust relationship must consist between myIdP and the web application. The claim proxy only collects the received claims for a given attribute and transfers them with all details to the requesting application. The application can evaluate the confidence in the data based on the claim details. The myIdP service is evaluated in a scenario of prefilling e-forms in a eGovernment application.

Pages: 1 to 5

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: May 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-270-7

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from May 27, 2013 to June 1, 2013