Method for Secure Access to Digital Data

A method for secure access to digital data, with said digital data being encrypted with a given user's public encryption key and stored on a server, and said method consisting of the following steps:

• A. receiving a request on a secure user device, via a secure communication interface, to release a password stored on said user device, said request being sent in response to receiving at said server a request from said user to access said digital data;
• B. issuing, by said secure device, a security test to a user thereof, and in response to the validated security test, releasing by said secure user device said password to said secure communication interface for recovery by said server, said password being used in decrypting an encrypted private key to obtain said user's private key, and decrypting said encrypted digital data with said user's private key, for presentation of said digital data to said user.

A system allowing secure access to digital data, with said digital data being encrypted with a given user's public encryption key, and the system comprising:

• a server configured to store the user's public encryption key;
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• a secured user device configured to receive via secure communication interface a request to release a password stored on said user device, said request being sent in response to receiving at said server a request from said user to access said digital data, send a security test to a user thereof, and in response to the validated security test, to release said password to said secure communication interface for retrieval by said server, said password being used in the decryption of an encrypted private key to obtain the private key of said user, and the decryption of said digital data encrypted with said user's private key, for the presentation of said digital data to said user.