Local Key Generation for Secure Internet Communications
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Solution Overview
Problem
The current Internet infrastructure lacks efficient mechanisms for verifying the identities of participants and ensuring secure communications, allowing malicious actors to easily masquerade as trusted entities, compromising digital assets.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing an asymmetric key manager to generate and manage public-private key pairs with customizable security levels, stored locally on user devices, and a cloud-based communications server for identity verification and secure message exchange, backed by an immutable cryptographic chain for data integrity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the Internet uses traditional open communication architecture, then ease of operation and accessibility are improved, but security and identity verification deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a Communications Server as an intermediary that sits between users and the open Internet infrastructure. This server handles cryptographic key management, identity verification, and secure communication protocols, allowing users to maintain ease of operation while the server ensures reliability through centralized security management.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical security measures (passwords, physical security) with cryptographic mechanisms. Asymmetric key pairs, digital signatures, and hash functions substitute for conventional authentication methods, providing stronger security while maintaining user-friendly operation through automated cryptographic operations.
2Reliability
If centralized security management is implemented, then reliability and security are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts complex security functions from individual user devices and consolidates them into a dedicated Communications Server. The server handles key generation, storage, rotation, and verification, removing these complex operations from client devices and reducing their complexity while maintaining strong security.
Solution Approach 2:
The Communications Server provides multiple security functions through a single unified system: key management, identity verification, encryption, decryption, digital signatures, and communication facilitation. This multi-functional approach improves reliability while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate security systems.
3Reliability
If strong encryption and identity verification are implemented, then security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The Communications Server performs self-service by automatically managing cryptographic keys, verifying identities, and establishing secure connections without requiring manual user intervention. Users simply initiate communications while the server handles the complex cryptographic operations in the background, maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary that transparently handles encryption and verification processes. Users interact with the server's simplified interface rather than dealing with cryptographic complexity directly, maintaining ease of operation while achieving strong security through the server's automated mechanisms.
4Reliability
If immutable cryptographic chain is used for data integrity, then reliability is improved, but device complexity and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the immutable cryptographic chain functionality from individual devices and implements it as a centralized service on the Communications Server. The server maintains the chain of cryptographic hashes for data integrity verification, removing this complex storage and verification burden from client devices while ensuring reliability.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods are disclosed for facilitating secure electronic communications that allow individual actors to be registered, their identities to be confirmed at an acceptable level of confidence, and their association with and/or ownership of certain user identifiers, to be verified. Secure and encrypted communication or digitally signed messages and/or documents between are supported while maintaining possession and control of one or more private cryptographic keys. To ensure that the integrity of information has not been compromised, embodiments are provided to locally generate and store private keys.