Dr Wenjuan Li and her research collaborators from the Technical University of Denmark won the Best Paper Award in the 16th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security (ProvSec) 2022 for their paper "FolketID: A Decentralized Blockchain-based NemID Alternative against DDoS Attacks". ProvSec is an international conference on provable security in cryptography and practical security for information systems. Electronic Identity (eID) is a solution toward solving the identity problem when deploying e-Government. Such solution should not only be secure, but also have to be robust enough under adversarial conditions. In practice, eID often suffers from some security threats such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. NemID is a digital eID used to log into public websites in Denmark. Dr Li's research team developed FolketID, a blockchain-based NemID alternative against DDoS attacks. The DDoS mitigation is achieved by not only utilizing its powerful data distribution ability, but also exploiting the economy system in blockchain. It particularly takes use of the transaction fees to effectively prevent DDoS attacks. The results demonstrate the viability and effectiveness of FolketID in defeating DDoS attacks.
