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Apparatus and method for authenticating access to a network resource
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Inventors: Baird, III, Leemon C.; Harmon, Mance E.; Young, R. Reed; Armstrong, Jr., James E.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Hua; Ly V.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Law Office of Dale B. Halling
A device for providing access to a remote site is disclosed. Access to the device is gained through an authentication process during which a user password and biometrics are provided to the device. The device also includes a security feature such that only authorized users of the specific device can gain access to it. Once authenticated, the device authorizes access to a remote site (e.g., a web site or a server on a local area network). The communications from the device to the remote site is encrypted and further the hand-held device uses a computer generated password to gain access to the site. In this way, user generated passwords, which are typically simple and infrequently changed, are avoided in favor of a more complex and frequently changed computer generated passwords for site access. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention overcomes the limitations of the prior art by providing an apparatus that allows secure authentication using the existing security infrastructure common on local area networks and the Internet, and using existing portable computing devices.
It does this by requiring the user to authenticate to the device using three different types of authentication: what you know (a passphrase or password), what you have (a particular device), and what you are (your biometrics).
Once the user has successfully authenticated to the device, the device then authenticates to a site using the site's existing access infrastructure and methodology.
However, in accessing the site, the device uses strong (i.
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, not easily discovered) passwords for the user, changing them frequently, and not allowing the user to see them or to be tricked into revealing them.
This process provides secure site access without requiring changes to the present ubiquitous site log-in processes.
But, the security of the current password-based infrastructure is significantly enhanced, because the passwords are strong passwords generated by the apparatus of the present invention (not short words from a dictionary that a user would likely choose), the passwords are different for every account (not reused on multiple accounts as many users do), the passwords are changed frequently by the device (which users rarely do), and the password may not even be known by the user (so the user cannot be tricked into revealing it through a so-called "social engineering" attack).
In one embodiment the device of the present invention is operative in conjunction with a personal computer.
The transaction is displayed to the user on the device, it is not displayed on the insecure PC.
Further, the device accepts PINs and passwords directly from the user, rather than through the insecure PC.
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