Gesture-based encryption methods and systems
AssigneeLockheed Martin Corporation
InventorJohn Stuart MORRISON
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Abstract
Methods and systems for transmitting and receiving are disclosed. For example, a method for establishing secure communications can include measuring one or more human gestures using a sensor on a first device so as to create a first metric of the one or more human gestures, creating a strong encryption key based on the first metric, including time-based information incorporated into the first metric, and communicating to a second device using the strong encryption key to encrypt data sent to the second device.
Claims20
A method for establishing secure communications, comprising:
- measuring one or more human gestures using a sensor on a first device so as to create a first metric of the one or more human gestures;
- creating a strong encryption key based on the first metric, including time-based information incorporated into the first metric;
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- communicating to a second device using the strong encryption key to encrypt data sent to the second device.
A device for establishing secure communications, comprising:
- a sensor capable of time-based measurement of one or more human gestures;
- metric circuitry configured to create a first metric base on the one or more human gestures;
- initial key generation circuitry capable of producing an initial encryption key based on a portion of the first metric;
- strong key generation circuitry capable of producing a strong encryption key based on the first metric including time information of the first metric not used to create the initial encryption key;
- encryption circuitry configured to encode the strong encryption key using the initial encryption key to create an encoded strong encryption key;
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- input/output circuitry configured to send the encoded strong encryption key to a second device.
A method for establishing secure communications, comprising:
- time-based measuring of one or more human gestures;
- creating a first metric base on the one or more human gestures;
- producing an initial encryption key based on a portion of the first metric;
- producing a strong encryption key based on the first metric including time information of the first metric not used to create the initial encryption key;
- encoding the strong encryption key using the initial encryption key to create an encoded strong encryption key;
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- sending the encoded strong encryption key to a second device.
The method of claim 19, wherein time-based measuring is performed using a touch screen incorporated into the first device, and wherein the first metric is derived based on plurality of locations touched by a user along with at least one of a sequence of locations touched and respective times that each location was touched.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.