NOTARIZED FEDERATED IDENTITY MANAGEMENT

摘要

The exemplary embodiments of this invention provides notarized federated identity management that may have application like supporting efficient user authentication when providers are unknown to each other and/or for avoiding direct communication between identity providers and service providers, which provides improved privacy protection for users. In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving through a data communication network an assertion generated by a first entity; notarizing the assertion to obtain a corresponding notarized assertion; and in response to receiving from a second entity via the same or a different data communication; network a query corresponding to the assertion, returning the corresponding notarized assertion. The method further includes: determining a user private key for the user identity information; and returning the user private key to the user as data to be stored on a storage medium.