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US 2019/0171836 A1Published application
Security key entry using ancillary input device
OwnerGary Stephen SHUSTERinventor
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Abstract
A physical, non-human readable representation of a digital key may be in a physical key article. The key article may enable a person to generate a signal representing the digital key from a user interface device in communication with a computer by physical manipulation of the key article. Access to digital content via the computer may be unlocked in response to receiving the signal. In addition, a key may be represented by a pattern of unreadable errors in a computer-readable medium.
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A method, comprising:
- encoding portions of a digital key in at least two non-contiguous, write-once sectors of a recording medium;
- writing mask data to the recording medium to mask the portions of the digital key by placing other data in re-writable sectors;
- reconstructing the digital key by extracting the portions of the digital key from the write-once sectors of the recording medium.
A method, comprising:
- encoding a digital key as data in at least one write-once sector of a recording medium;
- writing mask data to the recording medium to mask the digital key by placing other data in writable sectors;
- comparing the mask data against the data actually recorded on the recording medium to identify at least one sector where the mask data was not successfully written;
- reading the digital key from the at least one sector where the mask data was not recorded.
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A method, comprising:
- configuring a physical, non-human readable representation of a digital key by encoding portions of the digital key in at least two non-contiguous sectors of a recording medium;
- reading the recording medium;
- identifying sectors containing the digital key;
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- reconstructing the digital key from data contained within the at least two non-contiguous sectors;
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- where use of the digital key to protect, encrypt or secure non-key data on the recording medium itself may be done in conjunction with the method, but is not itself a part of the method.
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