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PRIME aims to develop a
working prototype of a privacy-enhancing Identity Management System. To
foster market adoption, novel solutions for managing identities will be
demonstrated in challenging real-world scenarios, e.g., from Internet
Communication, Airline and Airport Passenger Processes, Location-Based
Services and Collaborative e-Learning.
The PRIME project envisions user-controlled
identity management systems within which the players concerned act
together, mediated by technology to enforce the rules set by law and the
contracting partners.
PRIME
is having more of a centralized approach in providing security of
communication. It has a certifying authority that issues
certificates, i.e., digitally-signed statements. By issuing a
certificate, a certificate authority vouches for the truthfulness of the
statement. The main building block of PRIME is the use of
credentials. A credential is a piece of data such as a birth date
or postal address, or a list of such data items, certified by a third
party and is bound to its owner by cryptographic means. From a
privacy perspective, the use of credentials prevents the certifying
party from profiling the user because it is unaware of the identity of
the user and is preferable to the direct request to the certifying
party. Credentials can either be realized using traditional
attribute certificates where the reference to the user could be the
user's real name or a pseudonym, also known as private credentials.
Private credentials allow users to disclose selectively certain
personal information and be certain that nothing more than the selected
information is disclosed. It can also allow for the verifiable
encrypting of an attribute under a third-party public key to ensure that
only the third party can access the attributes. The main parts of
the PRIME system architecture are explained below.
Relevance to HYDRA:
PRIME offers flexible
solution to identity management enabling user to negotiate with service
provider in order to establish required secure communication. Important
element in the communication process is certificating the user using the
credentials. HYDRA needs such identity management also on level of
devices and sensors, which should be also provided by trustful identity.
In PRIME, ontologies are used to name the categories of data, instances
of data, process workflows, specifications, elements of policies and
obligations defined in the system using RDF. In order to allow more
general and more readable modeling, HYDRA needs higher-level description
language, such an OWL.
In short, PRIME has more of
a centralized approach in providing security for communication. It has a
certifying authority that issues certificates which are stored in a
database. Communication/transaction takes place in the system based on
these credentials. The main disadvantage of these types of systems is
their single point of failure.
The
biggest disadvantage of PRIME is the approach of holding certifications
and declarations of each party in the central database. In order to
avoid global system failures, HYDRA should provide also the distributed
solution independent of one central point. Related to outline
centralization problem, obligation management is bound to database
events. In HYDRA, obligations of users, devices and sensors should be
represented in a more flexible and distributed way.
The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
