Proximity Key Data Transfer Encryption via Quorum Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of data transfers across enterprise computer systems while optimizing resource and bandwidth utilization is challenging due to difficulties in preventing unauthorized access.
Innovation Solution
A computing platform receives data sets from a user device, specifies transfer paths, and validates authorization keys from a quorum of devices to encrypt the data using proximity keys at multiple hop points, ensuring secure transfer and decryption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple levels of encryption with proximity keys are implemented to prevent unauthorized access, then data security and confidentiality are improved, but device complexity and computational overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The encryption system is segmented into multiple independent layers: transport layer encryption using TLS/SSL, application layer encryption using proximity keys, and data at rest encryption. Each layer operates independently with its own key management, allowing the system to achieve high security without requiring a single complex encryption mechanism. The proximity key system itself is segmented into biometric authentication, geolocation verification, and device signature components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements nested encryption where proximity keys are embedded within the broader transport layer security framework. The proximity key authentication process is nested within the data transfer workflow, and the actual encryption data is nested within encrypted containers that are themselves protected by transport layer security. This nested structure allows multiple security mechanisms to work together without requiring complete system redesign at each level.
2Reliability
If data is encrypted with multiple levels of encryption using proximity keys, then data confidentiality is improved, but transfer speed and resource utilization deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Proximity key authentication and encryption key generation are performed in advance before actual data transfer begins. The biometric authentication, geolocation verification, and device signature validation are completed during the initialization phase, so that once authentication succeeds, the encrypted data can be transferred using pre-established keys without repeated authentication overhead during the transfer process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses cryptographic copying where the same encrypted data container can be securely replicated and distributed across multiple channels or recipients without requiring re-encryption. The proximity key system generates cryptographic copies of authorization tokens that can be validated independently, allowing parallel data transfers without sequential authentication delays.
3Reliability
If proximity key authentication with biometric and geolocation verification is implemented, then unauthorized access prevention is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple authentication factors (biometric data, geolocation information, device signature) are merged into a single unified proximity key authentication process. Instead of requiring separate authentication steps for each factor, the system combines them into one integrated verification flow where the user provides biometric input once, and the system automatically verifies proximity through geolocation and device identification in the background, presenting a single authentication interface to the user.
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AI summary
Aspects of the disclosure relate to ensuring information security in data transfers by utilizing proximity keys. A computing platform may receive a data collection comprising one or more data sets to be transferred to one or more remote recipient systems, as well as one or more transfer path specifications defining a specific sequence of hop points via which the data collection is to be transferred. Subsequently, the computing platform may receive, from a quorum of authorization devices, a plurality of authorization keys. Based on validating the plurality of authorization keys, the computing platform may encrypt the data collection using the plurality of authorization keys. Then, the computing platform may send the encrypted data collection to a first hop point associated with the specific sequence of hop points defined by the one or more transfer path specifications, so as to initiate a transfer of the data collection to a decryption platform.