Unforgeable Hash Credential Authentication System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current authentication processes face challenges in balancing convenience and security, as they often require multiple authentication factors, which can be inconvenient and prone to social engineering attacks, and struggle to distinguish authentication from authorization, leading to potential unauthorized access and data breaches.
Innovation Solution
A method and system using unforgeable hash function-based credentials, where a device and user profiles maintain evolving identities through sequential chains of transaction records, allowing for secure authentication and authorization by comparing device and profile root hashes, and synchronizing identities to enhance security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple authentication factors are used, then security is improved, but user convenience and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the authentication factor from traditional forms (passwords, tokens) and transforms it into a behavioral biometric signature derived from device interaction patterns. This single extracted feature simultaneously provides strong authentication security and maintains user convenience, as users naturally interact with devices without conscious effort while the system continuously captures interaction data for authentication purposes.
Solution Approach 2:
The device interaction data serves multiple functions: it characterizes device usage patterns for authentication, identifies anomalous behaviors for security monitoring, and creates a continuous authentication stream. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate authentication factors while maintaining high security standards and user convenience.
2Ease of operation
If traditional authentication methods are used, then ease of operation is maintained, but vulnerability to social engineering attacks and unauthorized access increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors device interaction patterns and provides real-time feedback on authentication status. By analyzing ongoing interaction behaviors rather than relying on static credentials, the system can detect social engineering attempts and unauthorized access in real-time, maintaining simplicity while significantly reducing vulnerability to attacks.
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication system operates autonomously by continuously capturing and analyzing device interaction data without requiring active user participation. Users simply use their devices naturally, and the system self-continuously updates authentication credentials based on interaction patterns, eliminating the need for users to manually provide authentication factors while maintaining strong security against social engineering.
3Device complexity
If authentication and authorization are combined in traditional systems, then system complexity is reduced, but ability to distinguish and control access permissions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the authentication and authorization processes by maintaining separate credential streams: authentication credentials derived from device interaction patterns and authorization credentials derived from user profile data. This segmentation allows precise control over access permissions while maintaining system simplicity through unified credential management infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces credential credentials as an intermediary layer between authentication and authorization. These credentials serve as a bridge that carries both authentication verification and authorization permission information, allowing the system to maintain architectural simplicity while achieving precise access control through the intermediary credential structure.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a method, a device, and/or a system of authentication through use of an unforgeable hash function-based credential. In one embodiment, method for electronic authentication includes receiving an authentication request including an identity claim from a first device, the identity claim including a device root hash computed by a hash function using inputs comprising a previously calculated hash value of the device. The method retrieves data of a user profile associated with the first device, the user profile including a profile root hash computed by the hash function using inputs comprising a previously calculated hash value of the user profile. The method extracts the profile root hash and compares the device root hash with the profile root hash. The method determines that the device root hash and the profile root hash are not identical, denies the authentication request, and optionally locks the user profile.