The Brazilian National Research and Educational Network announced on May 6th the list of approved projects in the Identity Management Programme 2015 (PGId). The purpose of the call is to promote the study of themes related to identity management, such as authentication and authorization protocols and public key infrastructure.

This year 17 proposals were received, demonstrating increased interest in issues relating to the area by the research community. From this universe, four projects were selected:

• The use of a second factor and continuous authentication in critical service providers

Advisor: Emerson Ribeiro de Mello

Scholar: Sergio Nicolau da Silva

Institution: Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC)

• Framework of A&A policy-based and attributes for virtual organizations

Advisor: Deborah Christina Muchaluat Saade

Scholar: Edelberto Franco Silva

Institution: Federal Fluminense University (UFF)

• A challenge-response authentication client device for Visual Cryptography

Advisor: Ricardo Dahab

Scholar: Felipe Rodrigues Novaes

Institution: State University of Campinas (Unicamp)

• A tool for monitoring and optimizing the CAFe federation

Advisor: Michele Nogueira

Scholar: Leonardo Melniski

Institution: Federal University of Paraná (UFPR)

The program lasts six months and the projects began operations in May. Selected works will be followed by the Identity Management Technical Committee (CT-GId) and receive financial investment by awarding research grants for responsible students.

After the development stage, the guiding and scholars will present the final results of projects at CT-GId.