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Password management and verification with a blockchain

US10666442B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Debbie Anglin · Georgetown, US
Howard N. Anglin · Austin, US
Su Liu · Round Rock, US
Yu Liu · Beijing, CN

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 29, 2017
Grant date	May 26, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 23, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L9/50
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An example operation may include one or more of hashing a password received from a user device to create one or more password hash values, determining whether the one or more password hash values match any internal password hash values of an internal password history chain stored in a blockchain, and providing an access level to the user device assigned to the matched one or more internal password hash values.

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