Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070250920
Filing Date: April 23, 2007Priority Date: April 24, 2006
Inventors: Jeffrey Dean Lindsay
Assignee: Pro se (no assignment on record)
Current U.S. Classification: 726, 726/007000
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A security system for controlling the access of a user to an asset, comprising a password-protected access interface and asset access means, the access interface comprising means for receiving user credentials comprising a password, wherein the access interface accepts user credentials in which the password is one of a recognized primary password and one or more recognized secondary passwords, the asset access means being operably associated with the access interface such that when the accepted user credentials comprise the primary password, the asset access means provides access to the asset, and when the accepted user credentials comprise one of the one or more secondary passwords, the asset access means provides relatively limited or feigned access to the asset, and when the user credentials do not comprise one of the primary password and the one or more secondary passwords, the asset access means denies access to the asset.
Title Rubberhose cryptographically deniable transparent disk encryption system
Description
A software product for Linux that provides deniable encryption of a hard drive. The user enters one of a set of passphrases, and each provides access to a different encrypted aspect of the drive. One or more aspects may be primary and others may be feigned.
Name/Title TrueCrypt
System Type Application Program
Description
Hidden volumes feature (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/hidden-volume.php) in TrueCrypt implements the password-dependent access control to encrypted data. One password gives access to a regular volume (with no sensitive information) the other password allows to access a hidden volume that may contains confidential information.
Title Security System User's Manual Security Manager 2000
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Description
This is a keypad that controls a home alarm system. There are three sets of passwords for the system:
(1) Main code (used for complete access -- aka primary password)
(2) Babysitter code (used for secondary access -- aka secondary password)
(3) Duress code (a fake password that when entered calls the police)
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ISBN
Description
Lotus is a client/server database application. Users traditionally accessed Notes database with a Notes ID (public key/private key encryption).
Domino turns Notes databases into HTML so that they can be accessed through a web browser.
By version 4.6 (released in 1997), the system stored Person documents for users with information on the Notes ID (for Notes access) and information on HTTP passwords (if the same user accessed the system through the Web.
