Exploring applicability of blockchain to enhance Single Sign-On (SSO) systems
Samuel Matloob · University of North Florida Digital Commons (University of North Florida) · 2019
Single-Sign-On (SSO) systems usage has been on the rise exponentially. One of the major benefits of having an SSO system is to have a central authentication service, which other applications can use. However, SSO services are also prone to failure. If an SSO service becomes unavailable due to failure, every application that uses the SSO service become simultaneously inaccessible to users. The goal of this research is to explore a technique to mitigate the availability issue of the SSO by customizing its functionality, and distributing its data using blockchain technology over the network. The Blockchain data structure possesses inherent properties that can be useful to improve an SSO service's availability and hence, its overall functionality and reliability.