{"id":4699,"date":"2019-10-09T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T10:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.logalty.com\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2020-07-13T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:32:34","slug":"olympus-project-shaping-the-future-of-the-digital-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.logalty.com\/en\/blog\/2019\/10\/09\/olympus-project-shaping-the-future-of-the-digital-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"OLYMPUS Project: Shaping the future of the Digital Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest advances in the Olympus Project were presented on 17 September at the eID Forum<\/strong><\/a> held in Tallinn.<\/p>\n

The OLYMPUS H2020<\/strong> project tackles the challenges associated with the protection of privacy <\/strong>in the use of digital identity management solutions, establishing a European framework of interoperability in identity management, based on novel cryptographic approaches applied to currently deployed technologies. In particular, OLYMPUS employs distributed cryptographic techniques<\/strong> to split up the role of the Internet Identity Provider over multiple authorities, so that no single identity provider can impersonate or track its users. By not requiring users to store long-term credentials, the OLYMPUS framework will not be dependent on any protected hardware or software environment on users’ devices, and will thus be able to provide a much better user experience.<\/p>\n

OLYMPUS addresses the current security problems of virtual identities by linking citizens\u2019 physical identities with their digital identities<\/strong>, but in such a way that new digital identities can be derived to preserve citizens\u2019 privacy<\/strong> when accessing different on-line and off-line services.<\/p>\n

To show the advantages of the solution when it comes to protecting privacy, two use cases are managed within the project:<\/p>\n