Multidimensional Password Authentication via 3D Cube Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional password authentication methods are inadequate as they do not utilize multidimensional characteristics, leading to complex and easily exploitable passwords across different platforms, and biometric credentials can also create vulnerabilities when stolen.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for user authentication through a graphical user interface that uses a graphical element, such as a multidimensional shape like a cube, to receive inputs, where the dimensionality factor, including relative position, is used for authentication, providing a multidimensional password mechanism.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional passwords are used for user authentication, then the authentication process is simple to implement, but the security is weak and passwords become easily exploitable across different platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms traditional 2D password input into 3D spatial authentication by displaying graphical elements (letters, numbers, symbols) on the surfaces of a three-dimensional cube. Users must specify both the character and its spatial position (face, position on face) to enter the password, adding dimensional complexity that significantly increases security without requiring longer or more complex character sequences.
2Reliability
If conventional passwords are made more complex to improve security, then authentication security improves, but usability deteriorates and users tend to use similar passwords across platforms
Solution Approach 1:
By adding spatial dimension to password input, the system achieves higher security with shorter password sequences. The 3D cube provides 6 faces with multiple positions each, creating a large solution space that enhances security while maintaining reasonable usability since users only need to input a manageable number of characters with spatial coordinates rather than memorizing long complex strings.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter space of password authentication from purely character-based to character-plus-spatial-position-based. This parameter transformation allows the system to achieve equivalent or superior security with shorter effective password lengths, improving usability while maintaining security.
3Ease of operation
If biometric credentials are used for authentication, then ease of operation improves, but security deteriorates when biometric credentials are stolen
Solution Approach 1:
The 3D cube graphical interface acts as an intermediary between biometric authentication and system access. Even if biometric credentials are compromised, the attacker cannot directly access the system without also knowing the spatial arrangement of characters on the cube, providing an additional layer of security that mediates against credential theft.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a spatial dimension layer over biometric authentication, where the 3D cube configuration serves as a second factor that is not tied to the user's physical characteristics. This dimensional addition protects against biometric credential theft while maintaining the convenience of biometric input methods.
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AI summary
A method for facilitating user authentication via a graphical user interface is provided. The method includes receiving, via the graphical user interface, a request, the request including an access request; generating a graphical element based on a predetermined guideline; displaying, via the graphical user interface, the generated graphical element in response to the request; receiving, via the displayed graphical element, an input, the input including an alphabetic character, a numeric character, and a symbolic character; determining a dimensionality factor for the input; and authenticating the request by using the input and the corresponding dimensionality factor.