Authentication System and Security Device

• US 20070250918A1
• Filed: 06/17/2005
• Published: 10/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ehsan Aboual Chamat
• Original Assignee: Ehsan Aboual Chamat
• Inventors: Aboual Chamat, Ehsan
• Application Number:
  US11/630,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20070250918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/5
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/04 for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/126 the source of the received data

Abstract

An authentication system for authenticating a computer user to a content server comprises an interface software program to be executed on a client computer for interfacing said client computer via a network to said content server and a digital identification key, said digital identification certificate cooperating with said interface software program for authenticating said user to said content server. According to the invention, that said interface software program and said digital identification key are installed on a removable storage medium to be associated with said client computer and configured so as to be executable directly from said removable storage medium.

Claims

1. Authentication system for authenticating a computer user to a content server, comprising an interface software program to be executed on a client computer for interfacing said client computer via a network to said content server and a digital identification key, said digital identification key cooperating with said interface software program for authenticating said user to said content server, wherein said interface software program and said digital identification key are installed on a removable storage medium to be associated with said client computer and configured so as to be executable directly from said removable storage medium.

2. Authentication system according to claim 1, wherein said removable storage medium comprises a USB memory device.

3. Authentication system according to claim 1, wherein said digital identification key is password protected.

4. Authentication system according to claim 1, wherein one or more files of said interface software program are redundantly stored on said removable storage medium, a first copy of said redundantly stored files being stored in an executable directory and a second copy of said files being stored in an archive file, and wherein said removable storage medium comprises means for copying said redundantly stored files from said archive to said executable directory.

5. Authentication system according to claim 4, wherein said archive file is write protected and/or encrypted and/or password protected.

6. Authentication system according to claim 1, wherein a check sum is associated with one or more files of said interface software program and/or said digital identification key and/or said archive file, and wherein said removable storage medium comprises means for comparing said check sum to a reference value.

7. Security device for authenticating a computer user to a content server, said security device comprising a removable storage medium to be associated with a client computer, said removable storage medium comprising an interface software program and a digital identification key installed thereon, said interface software program to be executed on said client computer for interfacing said client computer via a network to said content server and said digital identification key for cooperating with said interface software program for authenticating said user to said content server, wherein said interface software program and said digital identification key are installed on said removable storage medium and configured so as to be executable directly from said removable storage medium.

8. Security device according to claim 7, wherein said removable storage medium comprises a USB memory device.

9. Security device according to claim 7, wherein said digital identification key is password protected.

10. Security device according to claim 7, wherein one or more files of said interface software program are redundantly stored on said removable storage medium, a first copy of said redundantly stored files being stored in an executable directory and a second copy of said files being stored in an archive file, and wherein said removable storage medium comprises means for copying said redundantly stored files from said archive to said executable directory.

11. Authentication system according to claim 10, wherein said archive file is write protected and/or encrypted and/or password protected.

12. Authentication system according to claim 7, wherein a check sum is associated with one or more files of said interface software program and/or said digital identification key and/or said archive file, and wherein said removable storage medium comprises means for comparing said check sum to a reference value.