Ephemeral Key Platform Linking for Credential-Less Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network-based value exchange systems rely on persistent credentials, exposing users to fraud, regulatory risks, and cyber-attacks, and introduce additional security overhead without addressing the root data security issues.
Innovation Solution
A centralized key exchange platform facilitates credential-less exchanges using Universally Unique Ephemeral Keys (UUEK) to establish secure relationships between member platforms, eliminating the need for persistent credentials and enabling secure, flexible, and efficient cross-platform communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If persistent credentials are used for network-based value exchanges, then authentication and authorization can be established, but security risks including fraud, regulatory costs, and reputational damage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the authentication function from persistent credentials and implements it through ephemeral credentials that are generated temporarily for each transaction. This removes the harmful element of persistent credential storage while maintaining the necessary authentication capability through short-lived, transaction-specific credentials.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from static persistent credentials to dynamic ephemeral credentials that are generated and invalidated automatically. Each credential has a limited lifespan and is tied to specific transaction parameters, making the authentication mechanism adaptive and time-sensitive rather than permanent and static.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If strict communication protocols and authentication schemes are implemented to address credential insecurity, then data security is partially improved, but system complexity and overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a credential generation service as an intermediary that automatically creates and manages ephemeral credentials. This mediator handles the complex authentication logic centrally, allowing individual transaction systems to use simple credential verification without implementing complex security protocols themselves.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service authentication where the credential generation service automatically creates, distributes, and invalidates credentials without manual intervention. The ephemeral credentials self-manage their own lifecycle through automatic expiration and revocation, reducing the need for complex manual security management.
3Adaptability or versatility
If persistent credentials are used for cross-platform communication, then user relationships can be linked across platforms, but vulnerability to cyber-attacks and fraud increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs disposable ephemeral credentials that are inexpensive to generate and intended for single-use or limited-use scenarios. Each credential is discarded after its purpose is fulfilled, preventing the long-term vulnerability associated with persistent credentials while maintaining cross-platform relationship capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the temporal parameter of credentials from permanent to temporary, and the scope parameter from universal to transaction-specific. This transforms the credential model from high-risk persistent identifiers to low-risk ephemeral tokens that maintain functionality while reducing security exposure.
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AI summary
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a network linking technique that improves the functionality of a computer in various aspects. The techniques comprise receiving a member-specific assertion request encapsulating an assertion request from a user of the first member platform; determining a local construct of a cross-platform data object; determining, using the local construct of the cross-platform data object, a second member platform; providing an internal member-specific assertion request to an internal service associated with the second member platform; providing, via the internal service, an incoming member-specific assertion request to the second member platform; responsive to receiving a user input at the second member platform, receiving an assertion response at the internal service and from the second member platform; and providing the assertion response to the first member platform.