How Do I Prove To A Corporation I Am ME? A Voluntary Prior Art Disclosure of a Multi-Factor Identity Verification Protocol
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How Do I Prove To A Corporation I Am ME? A Voluntary Prior Art Disclosure of a Multi-Factor Identity Verification Protocol
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Eden, Wylie<br>(Contact person)
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This paper is a voluntary prior art disclosure of a multi-factor identity verification and recovery protocol — referred to throughout as BIT Seal™ — filed in support of eighteen pending United States patent applications.
The central problem: every major platform requires proof of identity before granting account access, yet the proof accepted — passwords, SMS codes, recovery emails, security questions — is structurally identical to what attackers steal, spoof, and reassign. A person can be locked out of their own digital life not because their identity has changed, but because the possession used to represent it has been transferred. Biology has not changed. The credential has.
BIT Seal™ derives a non-reversible cryptographic hash from N simultaneous verification factors — where N is two or greater — spanning biometric, documentary, procedural, and hardware-bound inputs. The reference implementation uses five: facial geometry, voice spectral analysis, government ID match, trained human audit, and device secure enclave attestation. The AND-gate architecture requires all N factors simultaneously — no subset produces the same output. The factor count is a design parameter, not a fixed constraint. No stored biometric data exists anywhere in the system; the hash is the only artifact, and it cannot be reversed to reconstruct its inputs.
The paper documents: the enrollment and verification protocol; the HKDF-based derivation chain and its advantages over fuzzy extraction; comparison with FIDO2; biometric self-suspension as an out-of-band account kill switch immune to credential capture; zero-storage by architectural design; and the contrast between BIT Seal™'s approach and the current industry trend of collecting more behavioral and location data to infer identity.
Addendum B documents over twenty real-world account compromise cases across Microsoft, Meta, and financial institutions — each illustrating the structural failure the protocol addresses. Addendum C provides a technical appendix for readers with a security engineering background.
This version reflects updates made after the initial SSRN submission, including expanded treatment of zero-storage guarantees, the out-of-band suspension mechanism, and the platform data-collection trend.
Author: Wylie Eden, Lake Country, British Columbia, Canada
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© 2026 Wylie Eden, Lake Country, British Columbia, Canada. All rights reserved. This document is released as a voluntary prior art disclosure. The ideas, methods, and protocols described herein are the subject of pending United States patent applications filed by the author. Reproduction for non-commercial, attribution-credited purposes is permitted.
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