System and method for secure nework login
View Patent ↗Systems and methods for providing an expedited login process that is relatively fast and that still provides a reasonable level of security and a reasonable method for mitigating compromised login information are described. In one configuration, a web server sends an anonymous unique machine readable login identifier code to a browser display of a client computer. A server account holding user then uses his smartphone to scan the code and send a message including the login identifier code and a smartphone identifier code to the server. The server obtains the identity of the user and authenticates the user by determining possession of the smartphone using the smartphone identifier. The server then uses the login identifier code to log the user into the server and into the user account at the client computer.
1. A computer implemented method executing on a server computer for a user using a client device to login to an account session with the server computer comprising:
receiving an access request from user using the client device via a network;
sending a two dimensional barcode including a unique login ID to the client device;
receiving a user identifier and the unique login ID from a personal user device;
using the user identifier to obtain a public key for the user;
encrypting a session ID using the public key;
encoding the session ID in a second two dimensional barcode;
sending the second two dimensional barcode to the client device via the network;
receiving from the personal user device the session ID in decrypted form;
determining that the session ID received from the personal user device is identical to the session ID included in the second two dimensional barcode; and
redirecting the access request from the user using the client device to a signed in account session for the user with the server computer.