Digital identities in the peer-to-peer shareconomy

With the digitization of our society an increasing amount of services are enabled through computer based technologies. For one, with the growing number of accounts and need for security, identity management is becoming more complicated for users. For the other, the insurance of the correct identity and handling of the same is becoming more difficult for the provider and identity middleware. These developments call for a user-friendly and trustworthy identity management which is not yet in place. This paper examines the requirements of a new solution to identity management which meets the demands of both security as well as ease of use.