Asymmetric Cryptography for Grace License Issuance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional verification systems are prone to deceptive digital communications and lack flexibility during system disruptions, leading to insecure digital rights licensing and limited access to software applications.
Innovation Solution
Implementing asymmetric cryptography for system health checks and digital rights licensing, using encrypted verification tokens and public-private key pairs to securely issue temporary grace licenses during authentication system disruptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional verification systems are used, then digital rights licensing can be implemented across computer networks, but the systems are prone to deceptive digital communications and lack flexibility during system disruptions
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-registers software licensing devices with public cryptographic keys before disruptions occur. When a disruption is detected, the monitoring device immediately initiates an encrypted verification protocol using pre-established keys, enabling rapid response without waiting for authentication system recovery. This preliminary preparation allows the system to maintain security and flexibility during outages by issuing temporary grace licenses through alternative channels.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a monitoring device as an intermediary that detects authentication system disruptions and triggers alternative verification protocols. This intermediary component enables the system to respond to disruptions by initiating encrypted verification processes that bypass the failed authentication server, maintaining both security through encryption and flexibility through alternative authorization paths.
2Productivity
If conventional verification systems are used, then digital licenses can be issued, but system disruptions lead to insecure digital rights licensing
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the critical verification function from the failed authentication server by implementing a separate monitoring device that detects disruptions and activates alternative verification protocols. This extraction ensures that even when the primary authentication system fails, secure license issuance can continue through independent verification channels using encrypted tokens and cryptographic keys.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements beforehand cushioning by pre-establishing cryptographic key pairs and verification protocols before disruptions occur. When system outages happen, these pre-configured security mechanisms provide immediate protection, cushioning against insecure licensing practices. The system prepares encrypted verification tokens and alternative authorization paths in advance, ensuring continuous secure operation during disruptions.
3Reliability
If encrypted verification protocols are implemented, then security during disruptions is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring device performs multiple functions: detecting authentication system disruptions, generating encrypted verification tokens, validating cryptographic signatures, and triggering grace license issuance. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional component, the system achieves high security during disruptions without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for implementing asymmetric cryptography for digital rights licensing during system disruptions. In particular embodiments, the disclosed systems transmit, to a licensing device that issues digital licenses, a digital communication indicating a system outage of an identity server that verifies digital licenses of client devices. Based on the digital communication, the disclosed systems call a monitoring device using a licensing device identifier. In response to the call, one or more embodiments of the disclosed systems use the monitoring device to encrypt and transmit a verification token back to the licensing device. In certain implementations, the disclosed systems then verify the system outage by decrypting the encrypted verification token and validating a corresponding digital signature. Upon validation, the disclosed systems can trigger a failover mechanism for issuing a grace digital license to one or more client devices during the system outage.