Dewan, P and Dasgupta, P, "Trustworthy Identification in a Privacy Driven Virtual World, Security Topic Area (Distributed Systems

The identity management of any entity in general and users in particular on the Internet is a formidable problem. This article presents an anonymity-privacy model that draws a clear dividing line between private information and identifying information of a given entity. The other contribution of this article is the abstraction of myriad forms of identity management systems (into three models) used on the Internet and in the brick and mortar world. This article also presents the challenges in identity management in peer-to-peer networks and reputation based systems. Finally, this article outlines the issues concerning secret credentials and the work being done on identity establishment with secret credentials