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SUMMARY:Digital Identity Systems For Humanitarian Aid Distribution
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DESCRIPTION:Shailesh Mishra\nDIC candidacy exam\nExam president: Prof. Car
 mela Troncose\nThesis advisor: Prof. Bryan Ford\nCo-examiner: Prof. Kateri
 na Argyraki\n\nAbstract\nHumanitarian aid organizations (HAOs) have been s
 erving millions of people every year and their prominence has grown in rec
 ent years because of the pandemic\, wars\, and natural disasters. While di
 stributing aid among people\, the HAOs aim to achieve equity to help the l
 argest population possible. To achieve this goal\, HAOs need to maintain d
 etails about aid distribution for every beneficiary. Digital identity syst
 ems can provide an efficient means to create and maintain such a record of
  aid distribution.\n\nHence\, in this report\, we discuss three foundation
 al papers that will help us with designing a practical digital identity sy
 stem. First\, we discuss SumUp\, a system that addresses the issue of sybi
 l-resistance\, which is pivotal for achieving equity in aid distribution. 
 Then\, we present a construct for Decentralized Anonymous Credentials\, th
 at provides a mechanism for issuing and verifying credentials in a privacy
 -preserving manner. This is an essential feature in an identity system as 
 we cannot afford to leak information about people living in distressed reg
 ions. Lastly\, we describe CanDID\, a system that not only provides sybil-
 resistance and privacy but also presents mechanisms for accountability and
  key recovery. These features make a digital identity system more robust. 
 We conclude by discussing the techniques which can be derived from each of
  the these works to design a digital identity system that is well-suited f
 or a region being aided by an HAO.\n\nBackground papers\n1. Tran\, D. N.\
 , Min\, B.\, Li\, J.\, & Subramanian\, L. (2009\, April). Sybil-Resilient 
 Online Content Voting. In NSDI (Vol. 9\, No. 1\, pp. 15-28).\n2. Garman\,
  C.\, Green\, M.\, & Miers\, I. (2014). Decentralized anonymous credential
 s. In NDSS 2014.\n3. Maram\, D.\, Malvai\, H.\, Zhang\, F.\, Jean-Louis\,
  N.\, Frolov\, A.\, Kell\, T.\, ... & Miller\, A. (2021\, May). Candid: Ca
 n-do decentralized identity with legacy compatibility\, sybil-resistance\,
  and accountability. In 2021 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) (
 pp. 1348-1366). IEEE.\n 
LOCATION:BC 129 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20129
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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