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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120027212 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CHAIN OF KEYS, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A PARTIAL CHAIN OF THE KEYS, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CHIP CARD The invention relates to a security module comprising
| 02/02/2012 |
| 20110173452 | METHOD OF GENERATING COMPOUND TYPE COMBINED PUBLIC KEY The present invention constructs a compound type combined public key system on the basis of a combined public key CPK system. The combined key is combined by an identity key and a randomly defined key. The randomly defined key can be defined by a center, called a system... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110161670 | Reducing Leakage of Information from Cryptographic Systems A system is described for reducing leakage of meaningful information from cryptographic operations. The system uses a pairwise independent hash function to generate a modified secret key SK′ having individual components. The system forms a modified secret key collecti... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158407 | PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING A HANDHELD DEVICE, INVOLVING KEYS An electronic circuit includes a more-secure processor having hardware based security for storing data. A less-secure processor eventually utilizes the data. By a data transfer request-response arrangement between the more-secure processor and the less-secure processor,... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110099203 | Cross domain discovery Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and systems for cross domain discovery. According to the disclosure, an object can include multiple entities defined by an originator. The multiple entities have different scopes corresponding to different access restrictions. F... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110085035 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING PRIVACY INFORMATION OF SURVEILLANCE IMAGE An apparatus for protecting privacy information of a surveillance image includes a key management unit for generating and managing keys used to unmask a masked input image; an input image processing unit for unmasking the input image using the keys, decoding the unmaske... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110081017 | KEY MIGRATION DEVICE Provided is a key migration device which can securely and reliably control the migration of keys. A migration authority (101) fetches a generation level which is the security level of a first electronic terminal (3011) and an output destination level which... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110051930 | VIRTUALIZATION OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS A cryptographic key is virtualized to provide a virtual cryptographic key. To virtualize the key, an operation, such as an exclusive OR operation, is used with the key and a mask. The virtual key is usable by a guest of a virtual environment in cryptographic operations.... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110044451 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND FALSIFICATION VERIFICATION METHOD An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus in which a secure CPU and a non-secure CPU are included, that is capable of reliably detecting falsification of programs. The information processing apparatus according to the present i... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110038479 | DEVELOPING INITIAL AND SUBSEQUENT KEYID INFORMATION FROM A UNIQUE MEDIAID VALUE A technique for using a key repository to store data encryption keys provides a way to access key records in the key repository using a key identifier constructed from a media identifier associated with a data storage medium on which encrypted data is or will be stored.... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100329465 | METHOD OF TRIGGERING A KEY DELIVERY FROM A MESH KEY DISTRIBUTOR A mesh station applying for access to a network includes a list of peer stations in messages of an authenticated key establishment protocol. A mesh key distributor derives a key delivery key and generates a top level key, and then delivers the top level key to the mesh ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100293379 | METHOD FOR SECURE DATA TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK A method for secure data transmission in wireless sensor network includes that: the network user determines a master key and inputs it into a central node and a device node; after the central node and the device node have authorized each other, the central node generate... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100290619 | ENCIPHERING APPARATUS AND METHOD, DECIPHERING APPARATUS AND METHOD AS WELL AS INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD The invention provides an enciphering apparatus and method, a deciphering apparatus and method and an information processing apparatus and method by which illegal copying can be prevented with certainty. Data enciphered by a 1394 interface of a DVD player is transmitted... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100278335 | Arrangements for Location-Based Security Systems and Methods Therefor Aspects are applicable to secure encryption such as in the generation of a cryptographic key from location information as may be useful in portable/wireless communication devices. As an example, one embodiment is implemented as a method of generating cryptographic keys ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100281265 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME The present invention is made to provide an information distribution system capable of securely storing digitized personal information in an encrypted state in a storage section and securely transferring/disclosing the stored digitized information only to a particular t... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100268953 | RECORDING DEVICE, AND CONTENT-DATA PLAYBACK SYSTEM A recording device configured to store content data in an encrypted manner, the recording device comprises a memory unit which stores various data, and a controller which controls the memory unit. The controller possesses a controller key and unique identification infor... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100268936 | INFORMATION SECURITY DEVICE AND INFORMATION SECURITY SYSTEM Provided is a migration system considering security authentication levels and data protection strength levels of the both security devices between which data is migrated. A first terminal 102 includes a mechanism for protecting data ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100246827 | USER-SPECIFIED SHARING OF DATA VIA POLICY AND/OR INFERENCE FROM A HIERARCHICAL CRYPTOGRAPHIC STORE The claimed subject matter relates to architectures that can construct a hierarchical set of decryption keys for facilitating user-controlled encrypted data storage with diverse accessibility and hosting of that encrypted data. In particular, a root key can be employed ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246828 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PARALLELIZED DATA DECRYPTION AND KEY GENERATION A method and system to decrypt data in a particular round of decryption substantially in parallel with the generation of a decryption key associated with the next round of the particular round of decryption. By performing an inverse next key computation, the decryption ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100223457 | GENERATION AND/OR RECEPTION, AT LEAST IN PART, OF PACKET INCLUDING ENCRYPTED PAYLOAD An embodiment may include circuitry to generate, at least in part, and/or receive, at least in part, a packet. The packet may include at least one field and an encrypted payload. The at least one field may include, at least in part, a first key and/or at least one value... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100211799 | Protecting Digital Data such as Images on a Device with Image Acquisition Capabilities Digital data, such as images on a digital camera, is typically protected (e.g., encrypted and/or authenticated) based on a master key stored off the device. The original master key can be acquired in a number of different ways, including being generated by the device or... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100195830 | ELECTRONIC DATA ENCRYPTION AND ENCRYPTED DATA DECRYPTION SYSTEM, AND ITS METHOD An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic data encryption and decryption system allowing a privileged user to decrypt all encrypted data without using a plurality of secret keys but only by using a single secret key that the privileged user himself ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100189263 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND UPDATING SECURITY CODES A system and method for creating a target cryptographic key. In one embodiment the system includes a first cryptographic module including a first cryptographic key, and a loader including a second cryptographic key, a communications port for the first cryptographic modu... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100150352 | SECURE SELF MANAGED DATA (SSMD) A system, according to one embodiment, includes a master key for encryption of data; an encryption key site accessible by computer and storing a first piece of the master key; a configuration file resident in a computer file system, the configuration file storing a seco... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100150344 | Methods and devices for a chained encryption mode An encryption chaining mode takes plaintext block N, generates encryption key N by combining, preferably by XOR, encryption key N−1 and plaintext block N−1 and encrypts plaintext block N using an encryption algorithm with encryption key N to output ciphertext block ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100080385 | ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION FOR SELECTIVELY DELIVERING A MESSAGE TO MULTIPLE DECRYPTING DEVICES Reduces message length of encrypted message to be transmitted selectively to plurality of decrypting devices. An encrypting device includes a generating unit for generating node associating information configured to associate respective terminal nodes in a tree structur... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100074441 | Data processing systems with format-preserving encryption and decryption engines A data processing system is provided that includes format-preserving encryption and decryption engines. A string that contains characters has a specified format. The format defines a legal set of character values for each character position in the string. During encrypt... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100070756 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL PROCESSING MANAGEMENT OF CONTENT SO AS TO ENABLE AN IMPOSED WORK FLOW A device receives protected content and a license for the content, unprotects the content using an input key and retrieves a rule associated with the input key. The device then processes the content to create new content, retrieves at least one output key associated wit... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100067702 | KEY GENERATION DEVICE, ENCRYPTION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE, KEY GENERATION METHOD, KEY PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A key generation device according to the present invention hierarchically constructs a Y-ary tree structure where n reception devices are assigned to leaves, and forms subgroups where individual intermediate nodes existing between the leaves and a root of the Y-ary tree... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100054464 | PROCESS FOR ESTABLISHING A COMMON CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY FOR N SUBSCRIBERS A process is described which can be used to generate a cryptographic key for a group of subscribers whose number is subject to change. The process can further provide that even after the group key has been established, subscribers can be removed from or added to the key... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100045442 | RFID Privacy-Preserving Authentication System and Method A system and method for RFID privacy-preserving authentication is disclosed. The method first has a reader sending a request and a first random number to a tag. The tag then generates a second random number. A plurality of hash values are then computed at the tag. Each ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042831 | Method and System for Secure Transmission of Data in an Ad Hoc Network Using at least one network consisting of at least one node, a multi-hop communication system is formed in which data are received and forwarded from a transmitting first node to a second node receiving the data via at least one third node interposed between the first an... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100031034 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING FILE IN DIRECT PRINTING Provided are a method and apparatus for protecting files to be directly printed. The method includes transmitting an encryption key, when an encrypted file is received, receiving a password of the file encrypted using the encryption key, decrypting the password using a ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100027787 | GENERATING A TRAFFIC ENCRYPTION KEY Apparatus and method for generating a traffic encryption key includes generating a traffic encryption key for encrypting data transmitted as part of a service, the traffic encryption key having a validity equal to a traffic encryption key validity time period; checking ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100020967 | HTTP AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT Systems, methods and apparatus for a distributed security that provides authentication and authorization management. The system can include an epoch manager that is used to generate authentication and authorization data that remain valid only for an epoch. The epoch man... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090323954 | INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEPHONY SECURITY ARCHITECTURE A secure Internet Protocol (IP) telephony system, apparatus, and methods are disclosed. Communications over an IP telephony system can be secured by securing communications to and from a Cable Telephony Adapter (CTA). The system can include one or more CTAs, network ser... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090327707 | Process for creating and managing at least one cryptographic key, and system for its implementation A process for creating and managing pairs of asymmetrical cryptographic keys and/or certificates associated with the pairs of keys, each pair of keys and associated certificates being intended for an object managed by a computer system. The process includes creating an ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090290707 | Generating and Securing Multiple Archive Keys A method and apparatus for generating multiple keys for a set of archives or portions of a set of archives. The process includes receiving a passphrase from a user and an indicator of a set of archives to be modified or created. An archive key generation process can be ... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090282246 | Method and system for continuously transmitting encrypted data of a broadcast service to a mobile terminal In service access networks having different key hierarchies that provide broadcast service to a mobile terminal, when switching from a first service access network, from which the mobile terminal receives the data of the broadcast service in an encrypted manner by a fir... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090279697 | CIPHERTEXT KEY CHAINING Some embodiments of a method and apparatus for encrypting and decrypting data have been presented. In one embodiment, a current key is generated from a prior ciphertext block and another key, which may include a prior key used to encipher the prior ciphertext block or a... | 11/12/2009 |
