Cryptographic Database Transfer via Hash Chain Immutability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital technologies for tracking ownership of electronic assets face challenges in ensuring accuracy, auditability, documentation, efficiency, and accountability, particularly due to the ease of copying and modifying electronic data, which complicates legal and physical ownership transfers.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for secure initiation and transfer of a cryptographic database or unit using hash chains to track ownership, where cryptographic seeds are minted and stored on a hash chain, allowing for secure issuance, transfer, and auditing of ownership records, with each transfer adding blocks to the hash chain, ensuring an immutable record that cannot be tampered with without discrepancy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If electronic records are used to track ownership, then accuracy and speed are improved, but security and accountability deteriorate due to ease of copying and modifying electronic data
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by minting cryptographic proofs and embedding them in WORM memory before ownership transfers occur. This pre-establishes an immutable record that cannot be altered later, preventing security issues while maintaining tracking speed. The cryptographic unit is prepared in advance with a unique existence proof that guarantees its authenticity from the moment of creation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces cryptographic intermediaries including hash functions, digital signatures, and WORM memory as mediators between the ownership tracker and the actual ownership records. These intermediaries transform electronic data into cryptographically secured forms that maintain integrity. The WORM memory acts as an intermediary storage medium that accepts data once but prevents any subsequent modification, bridging the gap between writable electronic systems and immutable record-keeping requirements.
2Reliability
If cryptographic proofs are embedded on WORM memory, then immutability and auditability are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the cryptographic proof generation and verification functions into separate, specialized components. The WORM memory is dedicated solely to storing immutable proofs, while the ownership tracker handles business logic. This separation allows each component to be optimized independently, reducing overall system complexity despite the sophisticated cryptography involved.
Solution Approach 2:
The cryptographic system is designed to be self-verifying through mathematical properties of hash functions and digital signatures. The WORM memory inherently provides its own protection against tampering through its write-once architecture, eliminating the need for complex access control mechanisms. The cryptographic proofs self-demonstrate their authenticity without requiring continuous external verification infrastructure.
3Reliability
If hash chains are used to track transfers, then accountability and documentation are improved, but data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by selectively hashing only the critical portions of ownership transfer data that need to be immutable, rather than hashing entire data sets. The WORM memory stores only the essential cryptographic proofs and minimal metadata, while fuller records can be stored in conventional, more efficient storage systems. This selective approach maintains accountability for critical information while reducing overall computational burden.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a method, a device, and/or a system of initiation and transfer of a cryptographic database and/or a cryptographic unit. In one embodiment, an electronic mint generates and mints proofs in an indelible media using a hash function. The proofs and/or an origin hash based on the proofs may be usable to seed a hash chain of a cryptographic bearer database and/or a cryptographic unit with an evolving state hash. The database and/or unit is issued from a treasury server and transferred between user devices as coordinated by a tracking server that utilizes one or more immutable records to track the database and/or unit and retain uniqueness of the bearer database in its most evolved state. Transfers may update user state hash of an evolving user profile usable as an authentication token and/or to show assent to a transaction resulting in a seal hash of acceptance.