Cloud service platform of electronic identity in cyberspace

Abstract

With the rapid prosperity and development of Internet of Things, identity management in cyberspace is becoming more and more important for activities concerning credibility and integrity such as E-commerce and E-government. Personal electronic identities in cyberspace associated in reality have been one significant and urgent scientific problem as online life becomes interwinded with reality. Thus, this paper presented a cloud service platform architecture based on electronic identity (eID), and pointed out security risk of the cloud service platform, and analyzed eID signature and whole lifecycle management mechanism to keep the correctness, uniqueness, consistency and continuity of eID state in the complexity and variety of terminal environment. Identity verification and attribute verification services were introduced as the most typical services with security and privacy to be used by personal users, enterprises, websites and foreign clouds. The capability and performance of the cloud service platform based on eID were discussed finally. Also, we have given that the application and development of the cloud service platform of electronic identity in cyberspace. And we get the result that the cloud service platform is more efficient, high performance and it can be used for wide application prospects.