The next meeting of the ReCred research project to be held in Bucharest
certSIGN will host the next meeting of the consortium developing the ReCred project, on 9-10 May 2016, in Bucharest. A year after its start, the project has made great progress and the meeting in Bucharest is a good occasion to point out the results of the first year.
ReCRED (Real-world Identities to Privacy-preserving and Attribute-based CREDentials) is a research project whose purpose is to replace passwords and to improve the security of any user that browses the Internet, using the mobile phone as an authentication and authorization tool. The project is funded via Horizon 2020 Framework Program, Digital Security: Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust – Topic: Access Control.
The project brings together professionals in the field of cybersecurity from universities (University of Piraeus, Cyprus University of Technology, International Telecommunications Consortium of Rome, Madrid Carlos the 3rd University and Madrid IMdea Institute), industrial partners: certSIGN (România), Exus (Great Britain), ISIC, Upcom (Belgium), Telefonica (Spain), Verizon (the Netherlands), Wedia (Greece), as well as a lawyer’s office – Backer Mckenzie.
The development strategy of the projects is set in two complementary directions: replacement of the local access with online and evolution of the access control techniques from the traditional ones to emerging authentication protocols, as well as cryptographic attribute-based access control.
Once the value of the online transactions has reached over 1,000 billion dollars/year and the recent development of the Internet of Things, online identification and access based on the username/password paradigm are no longer safe enough, while the need for reliable and easy-to-use authentication and authorization mechanisms is more urgent than ever.
A research project with significant benefits for the end user
An innovative project, ReCRED will evaluate the impact of the developed technologies on the final user and identify appropriate strategies to promote the resulted technologies to the final users.
