Our world is increasingly digital. Telecommunications allow people and things to interact electronically rather than physically. The
Electronic Identification (eID) allows actors (people and things) to electronically demonstrate that they are who they say they are to access services or perform
electronic transactions.
Since the problems caused by identity theft can be very dangerous, identity data should be considered private and
sensitive (biometric data is already covered in the data protection regulations of many countries).
The main objectives of the VIPS-ID project will be to provide a verifiable, private, distributed and secure identification of people and things:
- The identification must be verifiable because there must be external evidence or proof of the process to allow true traceability and auditability.
- Private because intermediate actors should not be able to obtain information about the individual or thing from external evidence of the process.
- Distributed to prevent a centralized entity from being the only point of failure or attack.
- Secure by using appropriate cryptographic constructs.
Project CPP2022-009796 funded by MICIU/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and European Union NextGenerationEU/ PRTR.
