UUEK-Based Platform Linking to Eliminate Persistent Credential Exposure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network-based value exchange systems rely on persistent credentials, which expose users to fraud, regulatory risks, and security vulnerabilities, and existing security measures complicate transactions without adequately addressing data security.
Innovation Solution
A centralized key exchange platform facilitates credential-less exchanges using Universally Unique Ephemeral Keys (UUEK) to link member platforms, eliminating the need for persistent credentials and enabling secure, flexible interfaces for cross-platform communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If persistent credentials are used for network-based value exchanges, then users can authenticate and complete transactions, but users are exposed to fraud, regulatory risks, and security vulnerabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the authentication function from persistent credentials by introducing ephemeral credentials that are generated temporarily for each transaction. The core authentication capability is separated from long-term storage, eliminating the security vulnerability of persistent credential exposure while maintaining reliable authentication.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from static persistent credentials to dynamic ephemeral credentials that change with each transaction. This dynamic approach ensures that even if one credential is compromised, it cannot be reused, thereby eliminating fraud risks while maintaining reliable transaction authentication.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If strict communication protocols and authentication schemes are implemented to address credential insecurity, then data security is improved, but transaction complexity and overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs disposable ephemeral credentials that are generated and discarded after single use. This approach provides strong data security through temporary authentication tokens without requiring complex protocol overhead, as each credential is inherently secure by design rather than by protocol enforcement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary credential management service that handles the complex authentication logic centrally. This mediator generates and manages ephemeral credentials, simplifying the transaction protocols at the network level while maintaining high data security through centralized credential control.
3Adaptability or versatility
If persistent credentials are used for linking user relationships across platforms, then cross-platform communication is enabled, but credential leakage and identity theft risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the authentication capability into platform-specific ephemeral credentials rather than sharing persistent credentials across platforms. Each platform receives only the credential segment it needs for its specific transaction, enabling cross-platform linking without exposing complete user identity information to any single platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates anonymous copies of user identity for cross-platform linking using ephemeral credentials. These copies enable relationship linking across platforms without revealing the user's true identity, thereby enabling versatility while eliminating identity theft risks associated with sharing real credentials.
4Measurement precision
If traditional credential-based authentication is used, then user identity can be verified, but financial loss and credit score damage risks occur from credential compromise
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic credential regeneration where ephemeral credentials are created for each transaction rather than being reused. This periodic authentication approach maintains precise user identity verification for each transaction while eliminating the financial loss risk that occurs when persistent credentials are compromised and reused by attackers.
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AI summary
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a network linking technique that improves the functionality of a computer in various aspects. The techniques comprise receiving an exchange request comprising a universally unique ephemeral key (UUEK); identifying a local data construct of a cross-platform data object based on the UUEK; providing a value request to a internal service corresponding to a member platform using the cross-platform data object; receiving, based on a contribution ruleset corresponding to the member platform, an updated exchange request from the internal service; providing an adjusted authorization request to another member platform based on the updated exchange request; receiving, from the other member platform, an authorization response based on the adjusted authorization request; and providing the authorization response to the terminal.