Academic European E-identity Management Framework

Nuno Ricardo Jorge Mendes

Key information

Authors:

Nuno Ricardo Jorge Mendes (Nuno Ricardo Jorge Mendes)

Supervisors:

Carlos Nuno da Cruz Ribeiro (Carlos Nuno da Cruz Ribeiro)

Published in

01/27/2021

Abstract

The electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services (eIDAS) regulamentation, alsoknown as EU Regulation 910/2014, has drastically changed how European Member States look at theprospect of a Digital Single Market in the European Union. While the eIDAS integration with ServiceProviders (SPs) is still in its infancy stage there have been great prospects for it’s future.The thesis Academic European E-identity Management Framework and the accompanying Euro-pean project eID for University (eID4U) had two objectives: the first objective is to enhancing the initialspecification of the regulamentation eIDAS to support new attributes, extending the personal attributessupported by the eIDAS Nodes and also creating a new set of attributes for academic purposes; thesecond is to support the practical implementation of eIDAS in real services.This thesis presents three eIDAS-enabled services; eRegistration, eLogin and eAccess; developedduring the project eID4U, these services have been designed, implemented and deployed at Universityof Lisbon (ULisboa). These services use the eIDAS infrastructure to authenticate and retrieve attributesof real users. They also provide solutions to typical problems encountered during the integration ofeIDAS with legacy systems.