Use Cases

UNITED-PAGES can be seen as an innovative web-technology for security aspects, a distributed communication platform that links business and customer applications and a distributed data storage   

Privacy & Security

Data Privacy deals in particular with the issue of self-determination with personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR/DSGVO) also requires the withdrawal of rights granted to third parties. With UNITED-PAGES, the owner of the data determines (by choosing an email address) the PROVIDER where his data will be stored. Current data can thus be read by authorized user always when required and do not need to be permanently stored elsewhere.

 

Data security deals with the issue of how the integrity of the data is secured, how the owner determines access rights and how a requester is authenticated and authorized to access.

Data security is typically implemented using encryption. Asymmetric encryption is a sophisticated way to avoid a complicated exchange of symmetric keys, but in contrast to symmetric encryption it is a time-consuming task and not suitable for a huge amount of data. Hybrid-encryption combines the advantages of asymmetric and symmetric encryption (e.g. in PGP(pretty good privacy) an automatically generated symmetric session key is encrypted with an asymmetric key and the ‘payload’ (message) is encrypted with the symmetric session key).

UNITED-PAGES uses the symmetric encryption of https to protect the request-, response-body and Basic-Authentication-Header. A (https-protected) Authentication-Header may contain a (unencrypted) password within the webservice-request. The password itself can be exchanged beforehand using asymmetric encryption. The asymmetric keys that are used for en-/decryption are stored within UNITED-PAGES (pky-UNIT) and  no external Authentification-Server is required.

 

Data-Proxy

The mapping of proprietary data to the formats specified in UNITED-PAGES can be used as a generic content conversion. This can be well explained using the example of an alarm functionality for weather data. In a UNITED-PAGES application it can be configured that an alarm sounds as soon as the current wind force (a data field of the air-UNIT) reaches a configured value at a weather station. The content conversion of (often proprietary) data formats of individual weather stations/websites is done by service processes that regularly work in the background. The alternative today is in many cases that interested people have to visit webcam websites regularly to stay up to date.

Content conversion is a broad market with many facets. For the data formats specified in UNITED-PAGES, a new easy-to-use platform is available, which frees many software developments from the permanent 'reprogramming' of interface changes. UNITED-PAGES can also implement NLS (Native Language Support) for content conversion, i. e. the specification of the UNITED-PAGES web interface allows requests with a country code to receive a response in the desired language, which is solved by the object orientation of the UNITs.

  • IoT- Internet of Things
  • Calendar - the end of the waiting room
  • Weather - localism beats global forecasts
  • Browser- no more 404

 

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