Modelling and Implementation of a Device Based Digital Identity Management System

Abstract

Identity management concerns transcends technical design issues as users disposition, awareness and attitude play a vital role in the effectiveness of such systems. A framework that supported some important digital identity management system security related features was presented in a previous study. In this current study, an attempt to empirically demonstrate the functioning of these features and to access how user’s awareness, disposition and attitude impact on the proper functioning of such systems was undertaken. To achieve these, a system was modeled and implemented using object oriented analysis and design method. The developed system empirically generates forensic evidence and an implicit mutual authentication scheme. The resulting system developed was tested for these features. The results obtained showed that the framework did provide for reliable forensic evidence generation and it also provided for the implementation of an implicit form of mutual authentication scheme. However, the outcome of a brief test conducted to gauge the reliability of this implicit mutual authentication scheme showed that the support provided was not very reliable based on these users’ factors (awareness, attitude and deposition)