Complex Space Encryption Key Generation for Blockchain Asset Security
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Solution Overview
Problem
Blockchain technologies face high energy consumption due to complex calculations for mining and have vulnerabilities in encryption key management, particularly in retaining ownership of digital assets, as current encryption techniques require significant computational power and are prone to compromise if key storage systems are discovered.
Innovation Solution
A system that identifies a spatial region in a complex number space using a user-defined password to generate encryption keys and unique identifiers, eliminating the need for key storage by deriving encryption keys from spatial regions and user passwords, ensuring secure asset tracking and ownership.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If blockchain mining uses complex calculations to generate encrypted blocks, then security and redundancy are improved, but energy consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the security function from the energy-intensive mining process by using deterministic encryption key generation based on spatial regions. Instead of requiring massive computational power to generate secure keys, the system uses simple geometric transformations of spatial coordinates, eliminating the energy consumption while maintaining security through mathematical uniqueness of spatial regions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter basis for key generation from complex computational outputs to simple spatial coordinates. By transforming the problem from generating security through computation to generating security through spatial uniqueness, the system achieves high security with minimal energy input, as spatial regions are inherently unique and deterministic.
2Reliability
If encryption keys are made sufficiently long to be secure, then security is improved, but computational complexity and energy usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical/computational system of generating long encryption keys through complex calculations with a geometric system based on spatial regions. Instead of computing lengthy key sequences, the system uses simple coordinate transformations and geometric mappings, dramatically reducing computational complexity while maintaining security through the inherent uniqueness of spatial coordinates.
3Ease of operation
If encryption keys are stored in key stores or databases, then key management is simplified, but security is compromised as the system becomes the weakest link
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling devices to autonomously generate encryption keys from their own spatial coordinates without requiring external key management infrastructure. Each device derives its unique key deterministically from its spatial position, eliminating the need for key stores, key distribution networks, or centralized management systems, thereby removing the weakest link from the security architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-establishing the security foundation through spatial region assignment before any key management operations are needed. Devices receive their spatial coordinates as a permanent, immutable identifier, and all subsequent encryption operations derive keys from this pre-established spatial basis, eliminating the need for ongoing key management activities.
4Reliability
If traditional encryption key generation is used, then security can be achieved, but the process is energy-intensive and computationally expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by deriving encryption keys through deterministic transformation of spatial coordinates rather than generating new cryptographic material. The spatial region serves as a template that is mathematically transformed into the encryption key, copying the uniqueness property of space into the cryptographic domain without requiring energy-intensive key generation processes.
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AI summary
A system for tracking an asset including one or more processing devices that identify a spatial region in a complex number space, the spatial region being associated with the asset, receive a user defined password, identify a plurality of key locations within the spatial region at least in part using the user defined password, calculate key numerical values at each of the plurality of key locations using a defined complex number formula and use the key numerical values to generate an encryption key. The asset can be associated with a user by storing an asset record in a database which is indicative of an asset identifier, the spatial region and an encrypted payload derived using the encryption key.