International Business Machines Corporation

Barry Hollywood

Clea Anne Zolotow

Simon J Brady

John Valentine Delaney

Jonas E Bryllert

Gerhard H Widmayer

Gerhard A Widmayer

Jørgen Egbert Floes

Pedro Soares

Anastasios Xouzafeiris

A system and method for multifactor authentication. The method includes receiving a passthought brainprint and a training 3D pattern. The method also includes calculating a variance between the training 3D pattern and a passthought 3D pattern, and generating an error tolerance for the passthought 3D pattern based on the calculated variance between the training 3D pattern and the passthought 3D pattern. Further, the method includes storing the passthought 3D pattern and the passthought brainprint in a neural profile as a passthought for a secure area.

Passthought for multifactor authentication in augmented reality

A computer system manages multi-stage transactions. A plurality of response time values of transaction components for a plurality of transactions are received. Two or more transactions from the plurality of transactions are selected, wherein a quantity of the selected transactions is equal to a number of the transaction components in the plurality of transactions. Eigenvalues are calculated from the response time values for the selected transactions. The selected transactions are determined to have timed out by processing the eigenvalues using a machine learning classifier. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for managing multi-stage transactions in substantially the same manner described above.

Watchdog timer for a multi-stage computing environment

A computer implemented method comprising operating a software container, the software container including a blockchain subsystem and a blockchain ledger, generating a blockchain entry by executing a hashing function on a current state of the software container and a last entry in the blockchain ledger, updating the blockchain ledger with the generated blockchain entry, and transmitting the generated blockchain entry to one or more connected software containers.

Container update system

In a distributed network hosting a shared pool of configurable computing resources there is provided one or more system instances of a blockchain. Each system instance comprises a virtual machine and a set of containers. The containers are members of the blockchain in that the blockchain's public ledger records encrypted copies of at least selected directories of each container. Each container that is in the set can thus verify whether any other container also belongs to the same set with reference to the public ledger, since the transactions recorded on the public ledger are encrypted copies of the set's containers. The use of a blockchain thus allows a system boundary to be defined around a set of containers by the initial specification of the blockchain. The system boundary can be defined to ensure that the set of containers comply with legal requirements, such as a geographic restriction.

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