Review of the Open Identity Summit 2025

OID Location 2025

Last week (22nd and 23rd May), the Open Identity Summit 2025 finally took place in the UniCasino of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. The conference was organized by the University of the Bundeswehr Munich / RI CODE and ITIS e.V., together with the German Informatics Society (GI) and the Fraunhofer IAO to combine academic […]

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 […]

Different Aspects of IT Security

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As I found out, I hadn’t written any posts in the last 12 months. This despite the fact that we had published some interesting papers and three (?) Incidents happened at LastPass. The latter obviously has to do with one of my research topics, identity management. Maybe I’ll write a blog post about it soon. […]