Peer-to-Peer Authentication via Secure Channel Intermediary
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to provide secure peer-to-peer authentication in potentially insecure communication channels, making it vulnerable to malicious actors who can intercept or manipulate authentication data.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a secure channel communication to enable peer-to-peer authentication by generating and sharing validation codes through an identity verification application, ensuring that only authenticated users can access secure communication sessions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users communicate authentication data through potentially insecure channels, then peer-to-peer authentication can be established, but the system becomes vulnerable to interception and manipulation by malicious actors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a secure channel intermediary service that mediates the authentication process between two users. Instead of directly exchanging authentication data over potentially insecure channels, the system uses a trusted intermediary to establish secure communication paths, generate session keys, and verify authentication tokens, thereby eliminating the vulnerability to interception and manipulation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing secure communication channels and pre-generating authentication credentials before the actual authentication event. The intermediary service sets up encrypted communication paths in advance and prepares security context, so that when authentication occurs, the secure framework is already in place to protect against interception.
2Reliability
If a secure channel intermediary service is introduced to protect authentication, then security against malicious actors is improved, but the device complexity and number of components increase
Solution Approach 1:
The secure channel intermediary service is designed as a universal multi-functional component that handles multiple authentication scenarios, generates various types of security credentials, manages different encryption protocols, and serves multiple users simultaneously. This consolidation of multiple security functions into a single intermediary service reduces overall system complexity compared to implementing separate security mechanisms for each authentication pair.
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AI summary
An identity verification system enables peer-to-peer authentication in a potentially insecure channel by leveraging a secure channel communication. The system authenticates a user via an identity verification application. The system provides a validation code to the user. The user communicates the validation code to a counterparty of the peer-to-peer communication. The system receives a request to authenticate the counterparty with the validation code and counterparty authentication data. The system authenticates the counterparty and sends the user the authentication of the counterparty. Alternatively, the user device communicates a request to generate a secure code for participants in a first insecure group application session. The user device selects an authenticated counterparty to receive the secure code from a list of authenticated counterparties. The user creates a second application session using the secure code as a password. Unauthenticated counterparties would not receive the secure code and are restricted from the new session.