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EU ICT FP7 Project SWIFT 

SWIFT (Secure Widespread Identities for Federated Telecommunications) is a European Union funded project of the 7th Framework Programme. The project leverages identity technology as a key to integrate service and transport infrastructures for the benefit of users and the providers. It focuses on extending identity functions and federation to the network while addressing usability and privacy concerns.

Partners

Nine Parters form the SWIFT Consortium

The SWIFT consortium is led by Fraunhofer SIT. Other members are Alcatel-Lucent, Deutsche Telekom, Dracotic, ITAveiro, NEC (Technical Lead), Portugal Telecom, University of Murcia and University of Stuttgart.

Duration

30 Month Project Duration 

The project proposal was submitted to the EU Commission as part of Call 1 of the 7th Framework Programme. Negotiations were completed in September 2007, and the final Description of work was approved in November of the same year. The project started operation on 1st Janaury 2008 and has an overall 30 month time span. The planned completion date is 30th June 2010.

WP1

Work Methods, Dissemination and Exploitation

This WP is responsible for defining the work working methods and to manage dissemination. The task includes the definition work methods, dissemination towards the general public and towards journals and conferences, standardization co-ordination and exploitation within the participating companies and beyond.

WP2

Identity Framework

This WP drives the technical work by defining an overall architecture, the IdM platform to be adopted and dealing with the more general issues of federation, name resolution and data modelling. Based on initial scenarios and use-cases, it will identify the gaps in the SoA and address them. The WP will also handle name resolution, federation and defining the data models used in cross-layer information exchange.

WP3

Security Architecture

The WP develops the necessary security requirements and protocols. It will deal with the overall security analysis as well as specify and implement specific security primitives. Topics covered are the threat model, assurance metrics and the privacy and security implications of identity transfer. It will also instantiate some privacy and security enhancing techniques at different layers and crypto primitives.

WP4

Service and Network Architecture

This WP deals with the specific protocols which interact with the identity platform at service and network level. Whether existing protocols will be adapted to the identity architecture or new network and service level protocols need to be designed will depend on their suitability for the identity platform. The WP will deal with an network-related functions, such as AAA, billing and charging, mobility and roaming.

WP5

Scenarios and Evaluation

The WP will design scenarios based on use-cases which demonstrate the benefit of a cross-layer architecture. It will also design sub-demonstrators, taking the scenarios and use-cases as a basis, and instantiate these demonstrators using the software provided by the other work-packages.

SWIFT
SWIFT White Paper - Identity Based Mobility PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 22 April 2010

We are pleased to report that is available in the section "Documents/SWIFT Publicity Documents " the white paper "Identity Based Mobility".

This document explains how SWIFT proposes an identity oriented architecture as a plugin architecture from different mobility tools, creating a long sought out bridge between multiple mobility protocols, which can differ from domain to domain. As proposed by the SWIFT project, most of the information that flows throughout the network is identity bound. Therefore, the network is no longer device oriented, but rather identity driven. From network access to service consumption, identities are the endpoints of the communication.

As a result, it makes sense that mobility should also be addressed in the same way leading to new concepts, where identity based mobility is in fact the main driver for mobility, rather than classical device oriented mobility, often considered as the de facto standard for current networks. Positioning the identity as the “brain” for mobility, allows turning mobility protocols into what they were designed to do: serve as tools to aid the continuity of a session, while movement occurs.

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SWIFT White Paper - Identity as a Convergence Layer PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
We are pleased to report that is available in the section "Documents/SWIFT Publicity Documents " the white paper "Identity as a Convergece Layer".

This document explains how SWIFT proposes a framework where identity is defined as a new layer that provides convergence between the service and network layers. This way, SWIFT provides means to perform cross-layer authentication, end users’ privacy protection and single sign on. This cross layer approach merged with the innovative concepts SWIFT incorporates, provides an identity convergence mechanism that can drive new business and opportunities for the different players.
   
This white paper focuses on the description of a special service defined within SWIFT, called Credential Bootstrapping Service, which can be used to bootstrap credentials from different technologies (e.g. Kerberos, X509 certificates, GBA, IMS...) based on the credentials already being used with SWIFT. This service, integrated into the SWIFT framework, serves as a convergence layer among different technologies, allowing SWIFT end users to access services that are not prepared to accept SWIFT credentials (provided via SAML)
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SWIFT present ITG Network Security Workshop PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 02 July 2009
SWIFT presented some intermediate result on the integration of identity management with the Host Identity Protocol at the semiannual workshop of ITG on network security.
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SWIFT at MobiSec 2009 Special Session: EU Research on Mobile Security PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 05 June 2009
This year, MobiSec (June 3-5, 2009, Turin, Italy) features a special session on research and development within the European Union, focused on mobile security. We are pleased to announce the intervention of Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta  from Murcia University (Spain), who will present "A cross-layer approach to Identity Management solution in networking: The SWIFT approach"
 
Web Link: http://www.mobisec.org/special.shtml
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Manuel Sanchez Cuenca PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Photo-Manuel_Sanchez.jpgThe SWIFT team was shocked to hear that our friend and colleague Manuel Sanchez Cuenca from the University of Murcia, a well-known member of the IdM community and an enthusiastic research and academic member, and an active member of the SWIFT project, passed away suddenly last weekend. Our thoughts are with his family at this time of severe distress.

Manuel leaves behind his wife and his small daughter. We will miss his friendly nature and always remember his contributions to the research community of Computer Science.
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