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Genesis

A director of one of India's leading defence lab mentioned to the UNIKEN innovation team about the problem of ensuring mutual authentication of any two communicating end-points without sending the identity over the channel - a seemingly paradoxical problem.

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UNIKEN’s security experts built a path-breaking formal model for identity that transformed the current absolute identity (login/password, digital certificates, and biometrics) to a new relativistic model resulting in a fundamentally new identity framework with critical properties for higher security. The result was mutual authentication protocol: RMAP.

Identity and identification are central to any interaction – both in physical and digital systems, typically where the interaction entails access to or manipulation of protected resource/s. It is our firm belief that any identity framework has to address the problem of establishing a mutually-authenticated secure connection before initiating any data transaction using that connection.

We postulate that authentication necessarily has to be mutual and that the only valid way to perform mutual authentication is to make fundamental changes to the identity representation framework. This can be accomplished by:

a) changing from end-point entity labeling (like in the case of login/password, biometric, digital certificates, 2-Way SSL and a combination of these), to labeling the relationship between the end-point entities (which inherently covers the two end-points in its definition), and

b) making the authentication protocol truly mutual – and thereby eliminating the susceptibility to man-in-the-middle attacks and phishing

We thus present a new identity framework – RELATIVE IDENTITY. It addresses and eliminates many of the core problems faced by the current identity technologies.

http://rel-id.uniken.com

Proof

The proof that any given innovation model works is the resulting innovations that it produces. Consistency in and repeatability of generating new marketable innovations are the 2 most important factors critical to measure the efficacy of the model. The UNIKEN innovation ecosystem has been generating and launching marketable innovation over the past 7 years, which are at various stages of their evolution. Developing path-breaking ideas - is what drives the innovators, and not all ideas generate business value, it’s a balancing act, the key is in developing a large number of innovations and developing business applications and models around them to capture the economic value in the innovations. Only a few of the marketable innovations are presented here.