Signed Content Delivery With Visual Authentication Cues
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online platforms lack effective methods for securely delivering and verifying the authenticity of content shared between users, particularly in social networking and instant messaging services, which can lead to issues with content forgery and lack of reliability.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for signing content using user authentication information, applying authentication representations, and transmitting signed content between electronic devices, ensuring secure delivery and verification through graphic representations and metadata.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If content is shared without authentication on online platforms, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to content forgery and lack of verification
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs authentication and signing operations before content is shared. The electronic apparatus signs content using stored authentication information prior to transmission, ensuring authenticity is established in advance rather than requiring verification at each sharing step.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a digital signature copy of the authentication information and attaches it to the content. This signature serves as a verifiable copy that proves authenticity without requiring the original authentication credentials to be shared repeatedly.
2Reliability
If authentication verification is implemented for all content sharing, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional authentication steps
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic apparatus automatically performs authentication and signing operations using pre-stored authentication information. The system serves itself by autonomously attaching signatures to content without requiring manual authentication input from the user at each sharing instance.
Solution Approach 2:
Authentication information is stored in advance in the electronic apparatus, and signing is performed automatically before content transmission. This preliminary setup eliminates the need for complex real-time authentication procedures during each content sharing event.
3Stability of the object's composition
If digital signatures are attached to content, then content integrity is improved, but loss of information increases due to additional metadata and authentication representations
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential authentication information needed for verification and attaches it as a compact digital signature. Rather than including complete authentication credentials or large authentication representations, only the necessary signature data is added to the content.
4Reliability
If authentication representations are applied to visualize signed content, then reliability is improved through verification, but ease of operation deteriorates due to additional visualization processing
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies visual indicators such as color-coded icons or graphical representations to indicate signed content. These visual changes provide immediate verification of authenticity through intuitive visual cues rather than requiring complex processing or analysis of the signature data.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic apparatus may include a processor configured to sign content being inputted in response to a input by a first user of the electronic apparatus using authentication information of the first user, a display configured to visualize a graphic representation indicating the signed content by applying an authentication representation corresponding to the authentication information to the graphic representation in response to the signing being successful, and a communicator configured to transmit the signed content to another electronic apparatus of a second user.