Today I read an interesting paper by Marian Harbach and colleagues from the University of Hannover. They have studied the factors that influence the acceptance of new methods authentication online. In particular, they have studied user attitudes towards using the new German electronic identity card (nPA) as a replacement for username/password based authentication online. This is highly relevant for our own work on IRMA, a platform for authentication based on attribute based credentials.
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In our IRMA project we develop a platform to support attribute based credentials (ABC) on a smart card. We believe the IRMA scheme is more secure and more flexible than the attestation based approach (as used by the German eID system, that use the placeholder name Mustermann on their sample cards). Below I will explain why.
