Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080232580 | SECRET SHARING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A secret sharing apparatus according to the present invention is based on a (k,n)-threshold scheme with a threshold of at least 4. The secret sharing apparatus generates a generator matrix (G) of GF( | 09-25-2008 |
20080304661 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION/BROWSING SYSTEM, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, CONTENT BROWSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A content distribution/browsing system is disclosed. First to (m−1)th encrypted content items E(K | 12-11-2008 |
20090144543 | SECRET SHARING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A secret sharing device of (k, n) threshold scheme creates a generator matrix G, first divided secret data, and random number data, calculates shared partial data based on the product of matrices with the random number data, the divided secret data, and the generator matrix G, and delivers the shared information formed by the shared partial data and the header information individually to the storage units. The secret sharing device calculates a recovery matrix and multiplies the shared information by the recovery matrix, hence to recover the secret information. | 06-04-2009 |
20090327706 | ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ROOT-ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DERIVED-ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A root-account management apparatus generates an electronic signature based on a survival condition and a secret key when an authentication result of a user of a client apparatus is proper, and transmits derived-account credence element information including the survival condition, the electronic signature and a public key certificate to a derived-account management apparatus. The derived-account management apparatus creates derived-account information which becomes valid when the survival condition is satisfied so that the derived-account information includes both the derived-account credence element information which becomes invalid when a validity term of the public key certificate expires and a biometric information template of the user which is valid regardless of this validity term. Accordingly, even if an authentication element as a root (public key certificate) becomes invalid, a derived authentication element (biometric information template) can be prevented from becoming invalid. | 12-31-2009 |
20100180124 | VERIFICATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment of the present invention, the first authentication context includes the template certificate indicative of the validity of a template and the first apparatus evaluation certificate indicative of the validity of the first apparatus evaluating information whilst the second authentication context includes the second apparatus evaluating certificate indicative of the validity of the second apparatus evaluating information. And the template certificate and the first and second evaluation certificates are verified when verifying the first and second authentication contexts. Thus, the validity of the template used for authentication or the apparatus evaluating information included in the authentication context can be verified. | 07-15-2010 |
20100191967 | CLIENT APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A client apparatus receives a message including a random number from a server apparatus during the handshake of agreement process, creates a biometric negotiation message including the biometric authentication method information and sends the biometric negotiation message to the server apparatus. Then, the client apparatus executes a biometric authentication based on biometric authentication method information notified from the server apparatus and encrypts the random number based on the private key. In addition, the client apparatus generates an authenticator from a result of the biometric authentication, the biometric authentication method information, the encrypted random number, and the client certificate, and sends to the server apparatus an authentication context including these. The server apparatus verifies the authentication context and establishes a secure session in one handshake. | 07-29-2010 |
20110185413 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION - A client apparatus transmits environmental information acquired from an environmental information acquisition device as well as a biometric authentication information matching result to a server apparatus. The server apparatus verifies the validity of the environmental information such as a luminance as well as the validity of the biometric authentication information matching result. If an environment is problematic, the server apparatus notifies the client apparatus that the environmental information is problematic. The client apparatus overcomes the problem of the environment such as the luminance based on the notification from the server apparatus and then retries a biometric authentication. The possibility of re-failure due to the environmental problem can be reduced during a retry of the biometric authentication. | 07-28-2011 |
20140161251 | KEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a master key management device generates, by using a first secret key stored in a first storage unit and a third public key, a re-encryption key used to re-encrypt a second secret key which is stored in a second storage unit and which is encrypted with a first public key to the second secret key encrypted with the third public key. A key management server device receives the generated re-encryption key from the master key management device while the master key management device and the key management server device are connected to each other, and stores the received re-encryption key in a third storage unit. The master key management device and the key management server device are disconnected after the re-encryption key is stored in the third storage unit. | 06-12-2014 |