Copyright 1987-2009 1 Roger Clarke Xamax Consultancy, Canberra Visiting Professor – Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre @ UNSW and at the ANU and the Uni. of

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Roger ClarkeXamax Consultancy, Canberra

Visiting Professor – Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre @ UNSW

and at the ANU and the Uni. of Hong Kong

http://www.rogerclarke.com/ID/IdModel-090605 {.html,.ppt}http://www.rogerclarke.com/ID/IdModelGloss.html

IDIS 2009 – Workshop on Identity in the Information Society

LSE – 5 June 2009

A Sufficiently Rich Model of(Id)entity, Authentication and

Authorisation

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A Dialect to Support Discourse on 'Identity in the Information Society'

AGENDA• Preliminaries• The Model

• The Basic Model• Identity, Identifier; Entity, Entifier;

Nym• Sample Applications

• (Id)entification• Authentication• Authorisation

• Applications of the Model

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Preliminaries• Deep discourse in a domain needs a specialist

dialect• Sufficient richness involves about 50 concepts

and relationships among the concepts • 50 neologisms is too much, so use existing terms• Existing terms carry a lot of baggage• Each term:

• requires explicit definition• must be related to other terms in the model

• For each term, the specialist meaning will conflict with the (in most cases, many) existing usages

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NamesCodes

Roles

Identifier + Data-Items

Identity andAttributes

RealWorld

AbstractWorld

Identity and Identifier

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Entity andAttributes

RealWorld

AbstractWorld



The Entity/ies underlying an Identity

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RealWorld

AbstractWorld

Entifier + Data-Items



Entity and Entifier

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RealWorld

AbstractWorld

Record:

Entifier + Data-Items

Record:



Record:

Nym + Data-Items


m

n

m

n

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n n n

Nymity

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(Id)entification• Identification

The process of associating data with a particular IdentityAchieved by acquiring an Identifier for the Identity

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• EntificationThe process of associating data with a particular EntityAchieved by acquiring an Entifier for the Entity

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• EntificationThe process of associating data with a particular EntityAchieved by acquiring an Entifier for the Entity

• TokenA recording medium for an Entifier or Identifier

• Identity SiloA restricted-purpose Identity, and associated Identifier(s)

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Authentication of Assertions• Authentication: A process that establishes

a level of confidence in an Assertion• Assertion: a proposition relating to ...• Assertion Types: a fact, the quality of a

Data-item, the value of an Entity, the Location of an Entity, an Attribute of an Entity or an Identity, an Entity, or an Identity

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Authentication of Assertions• Authentication: A process that establishes

a level of confidence in an Assertion• Assertion: a proposition relating to ...• Assertion Types: a fact, the quality of a

Data-item, the value of an Entity, the Location of an Entity, an Attribute of an Entity or an Identity, an Entity, or an Identity

• Authenticator: evidence ...• Credential: a physical or digital Authenticator• EOI: an Authenticator for Identity Assertions

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Authorisation

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Authorisation

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Authorisation:Access ControlRegistration

Pre-Authenticationof Evidence of

Identity or Attribute

EnrolmentDecide

Access Permissions

Issue ofAuthenticator

Permissions Store Access

Control List

Authenticationusing the Issued

Authenticator

AuthorisationAccessControl

Registerof

Authenticators

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Applications

• Goods• Packaging• Animals• Vehicles• Devices• Software• Organisations• Humans

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Proxies for Humans

• Goods• Packaging• Animals• Vehicles• Devices• Software• Organisations• Humans

• Personal Goods

• Pets• Personal Vehicles• Personal Handhelds• Reg-Code, IP-Address

• Embedded Chips

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Case 1 – Mobile Phones• Entifier for the Product – model-name, model-number• Entifier for the Handset – Serial-Number of the device

• Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) – GSM / UMTS• Electronic Serial Number (ESN) or

Mobile Equipment Identifier (MEID) – CDMA• Identifier for the Persona – Serial-Number of a chip

• Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) – GSM / UMTS• Removable User Identity Module (R-UIM) or

CDMA Subscriber Identity Module (CSIM) – CDMA• Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) – 3G

• Proxy-(Id)entifier – MAC Address / NICId, or IP-Address

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Case 2 – Organisations• Organisations are non-corporeal, 'shared

hallucinations'• 'Incorporation' is illusory• A register-entry is evidence, not

substantiation

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Case 2 – Organisations• Organisations are non-corporeal, 'shared

hallucinations'• 'Incorporation' is illusory• A register-entry is evidence, not substantiation

• Entifier• name, registration-code

• Identifier• business division, business name, brand, logo

• (Id)entity Authentication• corporate seal?? signatures??

• All 'corporate acts' are done by human agents, so ...

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Case 3 – Humans

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Defined Terms in the Model• entity, identity, anonymity, pseudonymity, nymity, attributes• record, data item, digital persona, data silo• (id)entifier, (id)entification, token, nym, anonym, pseudonym,

identity silo, multi-purpose / general-purpose identifier• authentication, authentication strength, assertion, assertion

categories, authenticator, credential, (id)entity authentication, evidence of (id)entity, (id)entity credential

• authorisation/permission/privilege, user, loginid/userid/username, account, access control, registration, pre-authentication, enrolment, single sign-on, simplified sign-on, identity management

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A Dialect to Support Discourse on 'Identity in the Information Society'

AGENDA• Preliminaries• The Model

• The Basic Model• Identity, Identifier; Entity, Entifier;

Nym• Sample Applications

• (Id)entification• Authentication• Authorisation

• Applications of the Model

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Roger ClarkeXamax Consultancy, Canberra

Visiting Professor – Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre @ UNSW

and at the ANU and the Uni. of Hong Kong

http://www.rogerclarke.com/ID/IdModel-090605 {.html,.ppt}http://www.rogerclarke.com/ID/IdModelGloss.html

IDIS 2009 – Workshop on Identity in the Information Society

LSE – 5 June 2009

A Sufficiently Rich Model of(Id)entity, Authentication and

Authorisation

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