Context Aware Identity Management Using Smart Phones

Abstract

Cell phones are personal devices that are seldom used by more than one individual. Today's smart phone not only serves as the key computing and communication mobile device of choice, but it also comes with a rich set of embedded sensors. In other words, smart phones can be considered less of a "phone" in the traditional sense and more of an identity management device. Furthermore the unique array of sensors on a smart phone can communicate its owner's identity to the world. Smart phones are pervasive computing devices that ubiquitously accompany humans and must adapt accordingly. In this paper, we propose architecture to fully leverage the capabilities to achieve a seamless identity management system. We use the sensor data from the smart phone to generate the context and identify the user to the outside world.