US 2019/0377722 A1 · ARRAY STRUCTURES

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for permitting nodes of a federated system to quickly and efficiently evaluate themselves for compliance or non-compliance with a set of requirements and detection of vulnerabilities. Both hardware and software configurations may be rapidly evaluated in real-time, using a multi-dimensional bit array, by hashing a configuration and using the value as a look-up index in a peer-to-peer distributed ledger. Speed is provided by the distributed process in which the nodes evaluate themselves, and scalability is achieved because the look-up speed is largely independent of increases in size and complexity. Blockchain technology ensures trustworthy data and stores allowable configurations according to hash values, and secure validated means of communication are leveraged to share results and updates.

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Dependent claims

A system for ensuring trustworthy configuration, implemented on at least one processor, the system comprising:

a plurality of endpoint nodes, each endpoint node comprising:
a processor;
and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that are operative when executed by the processor to:
receive array structure data;
detect a trigger event;
select at least one item for evaluation;
for each selected item:
hash the item;
select a first array structure;
allocate the hash value into an array index;
and
determine a bit value at a position of the array index in the first array structure;
and
report results of determining the bit value using a blockchain ledger.

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