Geospatial Cryptography for Secure Device Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data protection methods for electronic devices are inadequate, failing to ensure robust and secure data protection, transfer, and transformation, especially in mobile and dynamic environments, leading to potential data breaches and loss.
Innovation Solution
A geospatial cryptography system that uses low and high fidelity positioning techniques to authenticate access between electronic devices within defined boundaries, allowing only trusted peers to perform data and dynamic policy operations, incorporating self-determination and control-agent methods for secure data exchange.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If geospatial cryptography techniques are implemented to enhance data security, then data protection and authentication are improved, but device complexity and system requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces geospatial boundaries and positioning systems as intermediary elements between devices. These boundaries act as mediators that automatically enforce security policies based on location, reducing the complexity of direct device-to-device authentication while maintaining high security standards.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables devices to autonomously determine their own geospatial position and authenticate themselves against defined boundaries without requiring complex manual configuration or centralized control for every authentication event, thereby improving security while managing system complexity.
2Reliability
If geospatial boundaries are enforced for authentication, then access control is improved, but measurement precision and positioning accuracy requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the geospatial authentication system into multiple fidelity levels (low fidelity and high fidelity positioning techniques). This allows the system to use less precise but more energy-efficient methods when sufficient, and only escalate to high-precision methods when necessary, balancing access control reliability with positioning accuracy requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the required positioning accuracy parameter based on the security sensitivity of the operation and the defined geospatial boundary characteristics. Less critical operations can tolerate lower positioning precision, while high-security operations require higher precision, optimizing the balance between access control and measurement precision.
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AI summary
The invention includes methods for authenticating access between devices when the devices are within a geospatial boundary comprising the first step of keeping track of the physical position of the devices using both low and, or high fidelity geospatial positioning techniques. Next, a first device determines whether any nearby mobile devices have entered the geospatial boundary. Next, the first device determines if any of the mobile devices are peers eligible for cryptographic authentication. After the first device authenticates that the other device within the geospatial boundary is a trusted peer, the devices may perform various data and, or dynamic policy operations.