SWIFT is a EU project

EU IST 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 Scientific and Technological objectives PDF Print E-mail

The work covers transport and services strata (in ITU terms) and all related ISO/OSI layers, with the user’s identity being intrinsic to the control, data and management plane protocols. Specifically, technological advances and breakthroughs will be targeted for the following:

  1. Vertical integration of identity, privacy, trust and security across layers: Protocols, addressing schemes and inter-layer interfaces that provide controlled privacy for the user.
  2. New identity-centric user schemes supporting different levels of information access control, both policy as well as credential-based with well-defined privacy rules about who can change or even knows the data handled.
  3. Methods and techniques on how users are identified and located on the one hand, but may remain pseudonymous at all layers based on preferences set by the users and their context.
  4. Identity-based mobility solution: Adaptation of mobility protocols to the user’s “moving identities” across devices, services and networks.
  5. Semantic interoperability of eIdM systems – of legacy and possibly different national instances. Meta data model to deal with data sets used in IdM systems to support interoperability and to allow special characteristics such as user-dependent context that can be used in real time.
  6. An Identity Management Platform providing a common framework and APIs for accessing identity attributes across services and networks in a controlled way enabling user privacy mechanisms including specific APIs, such as for an Identity Broker.
  7. Mapping new identity techniques to existing technology (SIM cards, etc), and eIdM and AAA solutions to accommodate Identity Management. Specification and validation of extensions / modifications of existing ones to support SWIFT vision
  8. Techniques for name and identifier resolution across very heterogeneous namespaces.
  9. Contribution to the standardization and ongoing work in ETSI, IETF, ITU, to include SWIFT identity approach at the different layers to go beyond the existing solutions.
  10. Key principles of SWIFT should remain applicable universally independent of the evolution of networks in the FMC or future internet context.
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