Digital Registry for Secure Document Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional physical document storage solutions, such as safes, face challenges in ensuring secure, read-only access to sensitive documents after a trigger event like death or liquidation, and fail to prevent unauthorized alterations or access, leading to security issues and difficulties in maintaining document accuracy.
Innovation Solution
A server processing system configured to receive and store document data, provide read-only access based on defined trigger events, and maintain secure timestamps, ensuring authorized access and integrity of documents through encryption and digital signatures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional physical document storage (safe) is used, then documents are securely stored, but access control and prevention of unauthorized alterations cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses digital copies of documents stored in a secure registry rather than physical originals in safes. The digital copies are protected by cryptographic hashing and digital signatures, ensuring integrity without the need for physical security measures. This eliminates the risk of unauthorized physical access while maintaining document integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical safe system with a digital registry system using cryptographic principles. Instead of physical locks and keys, the system uses public-key cryptography, digital signatures, and hash functions to provide security, access control, and integrity verification for documents.
2Reliability
If read-only access is provided to trusted parties, then document integrity is maintained, but ensuring accurate and current document contents becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system establishes a secure registry in advance where documents are stored with cryptographic protection. The registry is pre-configured with access controls and integrity verification mechanisms, so that when documents need to be updated, the process is streamlined through authorized digital submissions that automatically maintain integrity without requiring physical re-securing.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates verification mechanisms that provide feedback on document integrity and accuracy. The cryptographic hashing and digital signatures allow authorized parties to verify that documents are both intact and current, providing feedback loops that ensure both integrity and accuracy maintenance.
3Reliability
If digital document storage is used, then access control and integrity can be ensured, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The registry system is designed as a multi-functional platform that handles document storage, cryptographic protection, access control, integrity verification, and update management all in one system. This universal approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems into a single integrated solution, reducing overall complexity despite the advanced security features.
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AI summary
A system, method, server processing system, and computer program product for operating a registry. In one aspect, the server processing system is configured to: receive, from a user processing system in data communication with the server processing system, document data relating to an entity; receive, from the user processing system, access data indicative of an accessing party to be provided access to the document data if a defined trigger event occurs; store, in a data store associated with the server processing system, a registry for the entity indicative of the document data and the access data; determine that a defined trigger event has occurred; and in response to determining that that a defined trigger event has occurred, provide the accessing party read-only access to the document data via an access processing system in data communication with the server processing system.