| 摘要 |
<p>This invention proposes a consumer verifiable seamless mechanism of anti-counterfeiting especially applicable to non-electronic consumer products. Known methods like bar-code, holograms, RFID, nano-fingerprinting or special packaging are either not consumer verifiable in tangible manner OR not able to address elaborate threat-model. The invention proposes set of 3 unique credentials generation per-piece of product that needs to be protected against counterfeiting. Once the product is billed, the package is opened customer needs to send first two numbers in authentication request. Authentication request is processed at the authentication server end and third number is sent to consumer end for his self- verification. For storage scalability purposes, invention proposes that both second number and third number should be deduced from first one and thus only first number needs storage. Another important attribute that this invention proposes that it should be technically and tangibly verifiable that a junk credential is not generated by authentication server. Despite being technically replicable, this method becomes full-proof as it is supported by heuristic analysis engine which acts like honey-trap for counterfeiters and this becomes its biggest strength.</p> |
