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The
ICS patented and patent pending solution creates a validated digital identity.
To accomplish this, ICS first authenticates that a telephone number actually
belongs to a person seeking to use the number. The authentication is accomplished
using multiple factors and multiple channels, creating a great certainty
that the person registering the number actually controls the number.
With the authentication established, ICS issues a key pair to the number
holder. Finally, a digital certificate is issued. This certificate binds
the person’s public key to the person’s telephone number.
The telephone number-based public key is deposited in a public directory.
The telephone number, now bound to a public/private key pair, becomes
a digital ID that can be used over and over by the ID holder to verify
identity. This key management application, which allows one to access
a person’s public key knowing nothing more than that person’s
phone number, distinguishes the ICS solution from other key management-based
communication schemes, which require pre-arranged key exchanges to communicate
securely. No other system establishes a single data element for public
key retrieval. PKI is well known as a security approach, having recently
been adopted by the Internet Engineering Task Force as a method to combat
SPAM email. The ICS solution makes its use easy.
With a digital ID firmly established, others can now be assured that you
are in fact you. With this ID in hand, it does not matter how many service
providers you use or traverse. All of those providers can be assured that
you are you, as well. ICS provides global identity binding through its
unifying platform of trust. The platform can be embedded in system software,
or as a part of the software contained in digital devices, such as smart
phones, PBXs and various other gateways. Its use goes well beyond VoIP
telephony, enabling wide usage for future applications such as WEB 2.0,
Google hosted applications and electronic commerce. |
