Event-triggered release through third party of pre-encrypted digital data from data owner to data assignee

摘要

A future proof method and system for securely transferring digital data from a data owner to a data assignee through a third party involving securely registering the data owner possessing the digital data with the third party and securely predefining to the third party a trigger event associated with a data assignee, registering the data assignee with the third party, receiving encrypted digital data and an encrypted trigger event associated with the data assignee transmitted from the data owner to the third party, and securely transferring and releasing the digital data to the at least one data assignee by the third party upon validation by the third party of the occurrence of the trigger event in such a manner that digital data can be used by data assignee on data assignee system.