Visible to the public UniRoam: An Anonymous and Accountable Authentication Scheme for Cross-Domain Access

TitleUniRoam: An Anonymous and Accountable Authentication Scheme for Cross-Domain Access
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsAhmed, Farooq, Li, Xudong, Niu, Yukun, Zhang, Chi, Wei, Lingbo, Gu, Chengjie
Conference Name2020 International Conference on Networking and Network Applications (NaNA)
Keywordsaccountability, anonymous authentication, anonymous messaging, authentication, blockchain, Cross-Domain Roaming, performance evaluation, privacy, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, security, Servers, SGX, Wireless fidelity
AbstractIn recent years, cross-domain roaming through Wi-Fi is ubiquitous, and the number of roaming users has increased dramatically. It is essential to authenticate users belonging to different institutes to ensure network privacy and security. Existing systems, such as eduroam, have centralized and hierarchical structure on indorse accounts that create privacy and security issues. We have proposed UniRoam, a blockchain-based cross-domain authentication scheme that provides accountability and anonymity without any trusted authority. Unlike traditional centralized approaches, UniRoam provides access authentication for its servers and users to provide anonymity and accountability without any privacy leakage issues efficiently. By using the sovrin identifier as an anonymous identity, we integrate our system with Hyperledger and Intel SGX to authenticate users that preserves both anonymity and trust when the user connects to the network. Therefore, UniRoam is highly "faulted-tolerant" to deal with different attacks and provides an effective solution that can be deployed easily in different environments.
DOI10.1109/NaNA51271.2020.00042
Citation Keyahmed_uniroam_2020