Self-authentication of value documents using digital signatures

Details Self-authentication of value documents using digital signatures Self-authentication of value documents using digital signatures

2006-05-23

2006-05-23

Zand, Kambiz (Department: 2132)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Multiple computer communication using cryptography

Particular communication authentication technique

C380S282000, C380S285000, C705S067000

Reexamination Certificate

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07051206

ABSTRACT:
An encryption-free technique for enabling the self-authentication of value documents (including personal and commercial checks) presented at a point of purchase or financial institution. Certain data contained on the value document may be signed with a first digital signature and authenticated with a public key certificate issued from a trusted certificate authority. The signed data and public key certificate are stored on the value document, preferably in a two-dimensional bar code data format. In the case of certain personal value documents (such as checks, credit cards, passports, birth certificates, Social Security cards, etc.), a unique personal identification number (PIN) also may be included in the document data that is signed by a second digital signature. At a point of purchase, a merchant or teller can scan and read the data stored in the two-dimensional bar code and other magnetically recorded information, and together with the PIN the customer provides, can authenticate the value document thus presented using the second digital signature. Alternatively, if the customer is not present, if the personal value document contains the second digital signature, the document may be verified using a PIN-generating algorithm or other method that generates all permutations of PINs. The first digital signature alone may be used to authenticate selected data within the personal value document even when the PIN is not available. Similarly, in the case of a commercial value documents, authentication of pre-printed data may be based entirely upon only the first digital signature.

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