GUI Control Trust Assurance via Hue Saturation Luminance Encoding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of computing devices often face security risks due to popup messages that can be generated by malicious actors, making it difficult for users to authenticate the legitimacy of these messages.
Innovation Solution
The system encodes an image provided by the user into popup messages using the hue, luminance, and saturation channels, allowing the user device to decode and display the image, thereby confirming the message's authenticity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If popup messages are presented without authentication mechanisms, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary encoding of authentication images into popup messages before presentation to the user. The encoder embeds visual authentication data (hue, luminance, saturation channels) into the popup message elements in advance, so that when the user receives the message, the authentication mechanism is already integrated and ready for verification without adding operational complexity.
2Reliability
If authentication mechanisms are added to popup messages, then reliability is improved, but device complexity worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary encoding mechanism that transforms authentication data into visual channels (hue, luminance, saturation) that can be embedded within existing popup message structures. This intermediary layer allows authentication functionality to be added without fundamentally restructuring the popup message system, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity.
3Measurement precision
If image encoding is performed using multiple channels, then measurement precision is improved, but manufacturing precision worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication image is segmented into multiple independent visual channels (hue channel, luminance channel, saturation channel) for encoding into the popup message. This segmentation allows each channel to carry specific authentication information, improving measurement precision for verification. The segmented approach also simplifies the encoding process for each individual channel, offsetting the increased complexity from handling multiple channels.
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AI summary
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed provide a trust assurance for GUI controls presented on client display. At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium includes machine-readable instructions to cause at least one processor circuit to at least: generate a graphical user interface; obtain an image associated with a destination for the graphical user interface; embed a first plurality of pixels of the image into at least one of a hue channel, a saturation channel, or a luminance channel of a second plurality of pixels of the graphical user interface to create an embedded graphical user interface; and cause the embedded graphical user interface to be sent to the destination.