Identity Management: Setting Context

[摘要] Identity Management is the set of processes, tools and social contracts surrounding the creation, maintenance and termination of a digital identity for people or, more generally, for systems and services to enable secure access to an expanding set of systems and applications. This note provides an overview of the issues and offers a model for considering architectural elements of an identity management solution. Notes: Copyright Kluwer Academic. To be published in the Encyclopedia of Information Security, Summer/Fall 2003 5 Pages

[发布机构] HP Development Company

[学科分类] 计算机科学（综合）

[关键词] identity management;trust;security;privacy