Counter Sealing Archives of Electronic Seals

• US 20090003588A1
• Filed: 06/26/2007
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cornerstone Enterprises Limited
• Original Assignee: Cornerstone Enterprises Limited
• Inventors: Ross, John Gordon
• Application Number:
  US11/768,772
• Publication Number:
  US 20090003588A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/645 using a third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links

Abstract

The description generally provides for systems and methods for a mobile communication network. Archives of seals can be sealed to protect the integrity of the seals and facilitate validation in the event a sealing party'"'"'s sealed registration document is revoked. A document can be sealed multiple times to nest seals within other seals. Specific evidentiary metadata can be included by the sealing party. A main document including or associated with other documents can be sealed as a collection of documents. The seal of the main document can include external references to the files included in the main document to verify the external files were not changed or altered.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a plurality of seals, each seal comprising a seal of electronic data generated using a first sealing algorithm;

storing the plurality of seals in an archive of seals; and

sealing the archive of seals with a second sealing algorithm to generate a second seal.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising re-sealing the archive of seals with a third sealing algorithm to create a third seal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second seal is stored by a trusted party.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising verifying authentication information for a user.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the authentication information comprises a secret key, a community identifier, an individual identifier, or any combination thereof.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the seal comprises a text string, and external file, an HTML seal, an MHT seal, an XML seal, an ASN.1 seal, or any combination thereof.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the seal is digitally signed.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a first electronic data associated with a first seal in the plurality of seals comprises a sealed document, personal information, a legal transaction, a medical document, multimedia data, or any combination thereof.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the personal information comprises a social security number, a license number, a passport, a birth sealed registration document, a credit card number, a bank account number, an email address, an identity card data, or any combination thereof.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the legal transaction comprises a contract offer, a contract acceptance, a goods transfer record, or any combination thereof.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the multimedia data comprises audio data, video data, graphics, or any combination thereof.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second sealing algorithms include one or more hashing functions.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first sealing algorithm is different from the second sealing algorithm.

14. A system comprising a data store configured to:

receive one or more seals, each seal comprising electronic data generated using a first sealing algorithm;

store the one or more seals in an archive of seals; and

seal the archive of seals with a second sealing algorithm to generate a second seal.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising a toolkit configured to securely store authentication information for a user.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the toolkit is further configured to generate a hash of the electronic data.

17. The system of claim 14, further comprising a manager configured to create the one or more seals.

18. The system of claim 14, further comprising a validation server configured to validate a seal.

19. The system of claim 14, further comprising an evidence toolkit configured to receive a signal indicative of creating a seal, a signal indicative of validating a seal, a signal indicative of receiving information regarding a seal, or any combination thereof.

20. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in an information carrier, the computer program product including instructions being operable to cause a data processing apparatus to:

receive one or more seals, each seal comprising electronic data generated using a first sealing algorithm;

store the one or more seals in an archive of seals; and

seal the archive of seals with a second sealing algorithm to generate a second seal.

21. A system comprising:

a means for storing one or more seals, each seal comprising electronic data generated using a first sealing algorithm; and

a means for sealing the archive of seals with a second sealing algorithm to generate a second seal.