US 2021/0084029 A1 · TECHNIQUES FOR REPEAT AUTHENTICATION

Abstract

The invention provides an authentication technique that involves provision of a new authentication credential for each authentication attempt. The requestor of the new authentication credential is required to provide a previous authentication credential in order to successfully receive the new authentication credential. The previous authentication credential has however been de-authorised so it cannot be used to authenticate the requestor, only to successfully obtain a new authentication credential. The requestor then authenticates using the new authentication credential. The cycle is repeated for as many repeat authentication attempts as are made by the requestor.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented authentication method, comprising:

receiving, by an authentication server from a data processing device performing authentication of a user, a credential request message comprising a first authentication credential;
validating, by the authentication server, the first authentication credential;
wherein, in the event the validating is successful, the method further comprises:
generating, by the authentication server, a second authentication credential;
linking, by the authentication server, the second authentication credential to the first authentication credential;
transmitting, by the authentication server, the second authentication credential to the data processing device;
and
de-authorising, by the authentication server, the first authentication credential.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Techniques for repeat authentication

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Techniques for repeat authentication

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Abstract

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