Cloud Authentication Keyboard Using Transformation Keys
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in managing secure passwords across various websites and applications, as existing methods often require complex and difficult-to-remember passwords, leading to potential security breaches if written down or stored insecurely.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates unique, high-strength passwords for each website or application by applying a transformation key to a simple, easy-to-remember password, ensuring security without the need for users to remember or store complex passwords.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users create complex passwords to enhance security, then password strength is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates as users must remember and securely store these complex passwords
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a keyboard intermediary device that acts as a mediator between the user and the computer system. The keyboard contains a hidden camera that captures images of the password being typed, transfers these images to a remote server for storage, and displays captured password images on its display screen. This intermediary approach allows users to type simple passwords while the system securely captures and stores the actual password data, resolving the contradiction between security and ease of operation.
2Ease of operation
If users write down or store passwords remotely, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to potential discovery or security breaches
Solution Approach 1:
The keyboard serves as a secure intermediary that captures password images and transfers them to a remote server for secure storage. Users can access their passwords through the keyboard's display or other authorized devices without physically writing them down or storing them in insecure locations. The remote server securely stores the password images, providing both accessibility and security.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates visual copies of the password through captured images rather than requiring users to write down or store text-based passwords. The keyboard camera captures the password as it is typed, creating an image copy that can be securely stored and displayed. This copying approach eliminates the security risks associated with writing down passwords while maintaining ease of access through digital image storage and display.
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AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example a method that includes detecting, by a system comprising a processor, a password creation request, obtaining, by the system, an identification of a password requesting application associated with the password creation request, receiving, by the system, an input password, obtaining, by the system, a transformation key for the input password, transforming, by the system, the input password into an adjusted password by applying the transformation key to the input password, and providing, by the system, the adjusted password to the password requesting application. Other embodiments are disclosed.