A Look at the Third-Party Identity Management Landscape

作者：Vapen Anna^*; Carlsson Niklas^*; Mahanti Anirban^*; Shahmehri Nahid^*

来源：IEEE Internet Computing, 2016, 20(2): 18-25.

DOI：10.1109/mic.2016.38

Many websites act as relying parties (RPs) by allowing access to their services via third-party identity providers (IDPs), such as Facebook and Google. Using IDPs simplifies account creation, login activity, and information sharing across websites. However, different websites' use of IDPs can have significant security and privacy implications for users. Here, the authors provide an overview of third-party identity management's current landscape. Using datasets collected through manual identification and large-scale crawling, they answer questions related to which sites act as RPs, which sites are the most successful IDPs, and how different classes of RPs select their IDPs.

• 出版日期2016-4