Review of the Open Identity Summit 2025

OID Location 2025

Last week, the Open Identity Summit 2025 finally took place in the UniCasino of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. After an obligatory welcome from Prof. Wolfgang Hommel, each of the two conference days began with a keynote speech. Sebastian Kurowski from Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft impressively described why communication is important in […]

Habilitation

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Gradually, I reach another milestone: the habilitation. Today I submitted my habilitation thesis digitally. The printed version (which can be seen in the photo) will follow next week – eight months before the deadline (four years from accepting my habilitation proposal) and with a further scientific question. In the further process, I will only be […]

International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities

The Call for Paper for our International Workshops on Emerging Digital Identities (EDId), located at ARES 2024, is now public. Based on the topic, we search for contributions related to digital identities, including interoperability, protocols, security, and more. Topics of interest are, for example, the following: Interoperability and user experience related to digital identities Analysis […]

Authentication Analysis Framework (AAF)

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Recently, our paper [1] on the Authentication Analysis Framework (AAF) was accepted and published by Elsevier COSE. But what is it all about? User accounts on the Internet usually support different primary and fallback authentication methods. Fallback methods take effect when the primary authentication methods are (temporarily) not available, for example, because the password has […]