BIANFE: Object identification and authentication in federated scenarios
Carolina Gonçalves, Bruno Sousa, Nuno Antunes · 2022
Federated Identity Management enables convenient mechanisms to authenticate users and to authorize services, applications to specific users’ resources. SAML and OpenID Connect that relies on OAuth 2.0 are commonly employed to enable Single-Sign-On features. Despite their wide usage in several domains (enterprise, web applications) they only aim to identify entities like persons and do not consider the different trust levels that a person can have with its devices, or even with the services provided by organisations participating or not in federated scenarios. BIANFE stands as a proposal for object identification and authentication in federated and non federated scenarios, considering the trust relations between end-users and the applications/services running in its devices. As work in progress, BIANFE tackles primarily the identification issue for objects, considering interoperability and privacy issues.