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US 2015/0033009 A1Published application
Method and System for Authenticating a User by an Application
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorAndreas Köpf
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for authenticating a user by an application by means of a challenge-response method. In this case, the challenge (5) is displayed in the form of a barcode on a display (6) and is transmitted to a communication device (3) associated with the user. The determined response (8) is input by the user at a user interface (10) of the application.
Claims13
A method for authentication of a user by an application using a challenge/response protocol, the method comprising:
- generating, by the application, a challenge and outputting the challenge in the form of a barcode;
- automatically reading-in, by a mobile communication appliance of the user, the challenge;
- ascertaining a response by the mobile communication appliance of the user based on the read-in challenge and a first secret key that is associated with the user;
- presenting the ascertained response by the mobile communication appliance;
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- checking the response by the application following input of the presented response into the application by the user.
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A system for authentication of a user by an application based on a challenge/response protocol, the system comprising:
- a computer platform configured to perform the application, the computer platform comprising:
- a first authentication module configured to generate a challenge and check a received response;
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- a first communication module configured to output the challenge in the form of a barcode on a display and input the response by the user;
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- a mobile communication appliance of the user, the mobile communication appliance comprising:
- a second communication module configured to automatically read in the output challenge and present the ascertained response on a display;
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- a second authentication module configured to ascertain the response associated with the read-in challenge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.