Dynamic Security Feature Authentication via Environmental Factors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing authentication methods rely on static security features that can be easily copied or hacked, offering inadequate security due to their inflexible nature, particularly in biometric and password-based systems.
Innovation Solution
A method that converts static security features into dynamic ones by introducing non-determinable factors, ensuring irreversible changes that cannot be anticipated by attackers, thereby enhancing security through continuous evolution of the security feature.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If static security features (PIN, biometric, code) are used for authentication, then the authentication process is simple and straightforward, but the security is weak and easily copied or hacked
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by transforming static security features into dynamic ones. The security feature is no longer fixed but changes over time through interaction with the environment. The system continuously updates the security feature based on environmental factors, making it impossible for attackers to copy or predict the future state of the security feature.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements parameter changes by modifying the security feature's characteristics over time. The security feature changes its properties (such as physical state, configuration, or data characteristics) based on environmental interactions, ensuring that the same feature appears different at different times, thereby enhancing security while maintaining operational simplicity.
2Measurement precision
If biometric data is used for authentication, then personal identification is accurate, but the data can be copied and is not reliable against hackers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static biometric data into a dynamic security feature that changes over time. Instead of using a fixed biometric template that can be copied, the system continuously updates the feature based on environmental interactions, making the biometric data unreliable for copying while maintaining identification accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies the disposable principle by creating security features that are intentionally temporary and changing. The security feature is designed to evolve and change its characteristics over time, making it useless for long-term storage or copying, while still providing adequate identification capability when needed.
3Ease of operation
If password-based authentication is used, then access control is implemented, but data transmissions can be intercepted and hacked
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces static passwords with dynamic security features that change over time through environmental interaction. The security feature is continuously updated based on environmental factors, making intercepted data useless for authentication since the feature changes before and after transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing environmental interaction mechanisms that automatically transform the security feature before authentication occurs. The security feature is already in a changing state due to prior environmental interactions, so no additional transformation is needed during the authentication process itself.
4Loss of information
If 3-D structures with encoded information are used for security, then information encoding capability is enhanced, but the structure is specified and does not change, making it vulnerable to hackers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static 3-D structures into dynamic ones that change over time through environmental interaction. The security feature maintains its ability to encode information while continuously changing its physical or configuration state, making the encoded information unpredictable and impossible to copy or predict.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a method for authenticating and/or identifying persons, objects, service systems or computer programs, in which a static, unchanging security feature that is characteristic of the person, the object, the service system or the computer program, is created or used, which is subsequently altered under the influence of an unforeseeable factor and thereby converted into a dynamic security feature. Positive authentication is obtained, when the dynamic security feature has at least been partly changed by a dynamic factor between two query times in comparison with the static security feature stored in the storage medium, wherein the static security feature stored in the storage medium corresponds to the most recently updated, altered dynamic security feature from the last query time. Further, the invention relates to an authentication system, in which dynamic security features originate from a static security feature.