Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Online account access recovery system and method utilizing secret splitting
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Application No.: US16880525Application Date: 2020-05-21
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Publication No.: US11182470B2Publication Date: 2021-11-23
- Inventor: Roberto Di Pietro , Simone Raponi
- Applicant: Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development
- Applicant Address: QA Doha
- Assignee: Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development
- Current Assignee: Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development
- Current Assignee Address: QA Doha
- Agency: K&L Gates LLP
- Main IPC: G06F21/00
- IPC: G06F21/00 ; G06F21/45 ; G06F21/60 ; H04L9/08

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a new and innovative system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for securely recovering access to an online service account. Secret splitting is utilized to require multiple recovery mechanisms in order to recover access to an online service account, thus decreasing the likelihood that a malicious attacker will compromise all of the recovery mechanisms to gain access to the online service account. The secret is split into a quantity of tokens via a secret sharing function that can reconstruct the secret with a predetermined threshold quantity of the tokens. The level of security provided by the system is flexible by adjusting the quantity of recovery mechanisms and the predetermined threshold quantity of tokens required to reconstruct the secret.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200372149A1 ONLINE ACCOUNT ACCESS RECOVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD UTILIZING SECRET SPLITTING Public/Granted day:2020-11-26
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