Strong Location-Specific Authentication for Mobile Users and Devices

The effort proposed here by the DAT team will investigate and quantify the use of DAT's strong authentication system for the control of access to wireless networks. The DAT system fuses 7 different credentials into an incalculable and continually dynamic authentication system. Although the specific operation of the system in the wireless environment will developed in the course of the proposed SBIR Phase I task, a preview of the specific credentials that must all be co-resident before access is authenticated can be prepared from the working DISA system. These credentials and their use (described below in further detail) include: 1. User specific information, such as biometrics. 2. The processor ID number on the user's authorized computer. 3. The volume ID number on the user's authorized ID number. 4. The DAT electronics ID number. 5. The LSDFTM historical table of physics based secrets (captured in the past by the user each time he logged in.) 6. The user's location, based on the use of the location awareness component of the DAT system to determine whether or not the user resides at a pre-approved location. 7. The correct sliding port target for access. DAT believes that a physics based authentication system is ideally suited to an immediate, revolutionary and significant strengthening of wireless network systems with minimal impact on costs and current method of operation.