Cryptography – Electric signal modification – Having production of printed copy
Patent
1997-04-30
1999-06-15
Hayes, Gail O.
Cryptography
Electric signal modification
Having production of printed copy
380 23, 380 25, 380 55, H04K 100, G09C 308, G09C 300, H04L 900, H04L 1534
Patent
active
059129743
ABSTRACT:
Printed document contents are scanned and digitized, using a conventional scanner, and displayed page by page on a screen. Using a conventional editor and an input device, the scanned and digitized document contents are edited before being used to generate a digital signature. This allows reading errors, which could invalidate a subsequent verification process, to be corrected. Using the editor, and an input device such as a mouse, the signing authority identifies on the screen different segments of the document, each segment containing data of a single type and selects for each segment a set of rules, among a group proposed by the system, for authenticating it. Then, for each segment, an edited digital form of the data contents are derived using the method defined in the rules. A hash value of the rules used and the edited digital form of the segment contents is calculated using a public hashing algorithm. Then the apparatus generates a digital signature of the edited digitized segments contents using the secret key of the authenticator. Finally, an authentication code comprising the edited digital form of each segment and the digital signature is printed on the document. To verify the authenticity, the printed document is scanned and digitized again and the digital signature is checked using the associated public key. If the check fails, the verifier identifies which segment has been scanned differently, comparing it with the related edited digital form in the authentication code printed on the document to evaluate its validity.
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Holloway Christopher J.
Matyas, Jr. Stephen Michael
Hayes Gail O.
Hesse K. O.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Sayadian Hrayr A.
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