Wearable Device Authentication via Personal Device Collection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional user authentication methods rely on single or two-factor authentication, which may not provide sufficient security for accessing sensitive information, as they do not fully leverage the potential of wearable devices to enhance authentication strength.
Innovation Solution
The use of a personal device collection (PDC) that includes wearable devices like smartwatches and smartglasses, where multiple devices within the PDC provide additional authentication factors such as biometrics, possession-based tokens, and knowledge-based inputs, enhancing the security mechanism by requiring multiple factors for verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple-factor authentication using wearable devices is implemented, then authentication security is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication system is segmented into multiple independent factors (biometric factors from wearable devices, possession-based factors, knowledge-based factors). Each factor operates independently and can be evaluated separately, allowing the system to achieve high security through multiple factors while managing complexity through modular architecture where each factor is handled by dedicated authentication components.
2Reliability
If multiple authentication factors from various devices are required, then user identity verification confidence is improved, but authentication time increases
Solution Approach 1:
Wearable devices perform biometric factor evaluation in advance and store the results. When authentication is needed, the system can quickly retrieve and utilize these pre-evaluated biometric factors, reducing the overall authentication time while maintaining the confidence provided by multiple factors. The system prepares authentication materials and evaluates biometric factors beforehand to enable faster authentication flows.
Data Source
AI summary
Various systems and methods for authenticating a user are described herein. A system comprises a processor subsystem; and a memory including instructions, which when executed by the processor subsystem, cause the processor subsystem to: receive at a server from a first user device, a first authentication token; receive at the server from a second user device, a second authentication token; authenticate the user based on the first and second authentication tokens; and establish a communication session from the server to the first user device when the user is authenticated.