Method and system of network integrity via digital authorization (NIDA) for enhanced internet security

摘要

A novel method for online authentication of an authorized website is described to prevent the circulation of forged web pages on the World Wide Web. The novel feature of the instant invention is encryption-independent method of securing online transactions by authenticating the server to the client and client to the server. In the instant invention the approach is deployed in curbing the menace of spoofed websites on the World Wide Web by allowing the delivery of only those web pages that are authentic and hosted on an authorized remote server. The method comprises of a graphic representation of the identity of the authorized remote server on the visible portion of the web page served by that remote server. Such graphic representation is capable of being scanned, read and allowed access, only if resolved to the identity of the authorized remote server every time that web page is requested by another authorized computer connected to the Internet.