Principal Investigator Thomas Hardjono
Co-investigator Stephen Buckley
Project Website http://trust.mit.edu/
The mission of the MIT Internet Trust Consortium is to: help people, organizations and computers manage data access efficiently and equitably by developing open source components for the internet's emerging personal data ecosystem.
Established in 2007 and housed under MIT Connection Science since 2015, the MIT Internet Trust Consortium originally evolved from Kerberos, a part of MIT's famous Project Athena. MIT was an early pioneer in cryptography and computer security, creating Kerberos to solve the problem of distributed authentication, and a trail-blazer in open-source software, releasing the project under the then-revolutionary MIT License.
Building on this world-class reputation, the MIT Internet Trust Consortium uses its expertise and knowledge-base to develop new technological building blocks that underlie the emerging personal data ecosystem. These blocks can be combined to address issues like identity management & authentication, authorization & consent management, data security, data mining & privacy-preservation, and digital death & meaningful archiving.
In the same way that the 25 year history of MIT Kerberos has profoundly influenced the way individuals perform authentication in their daily life, we seek to develop new solutions whose positive impact can last beyond the next generation of users of the Internet.