Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Key distribution system and method, key generation apparatus, representative user terminal, server apparatus, user terminal, and program
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Application No.: US16607004Application Date: 2018-04-27
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Publication No.: US11336436B2Publication Date: 2022-05-17
- Inventor: Reo Yoshida , Tetsutaro Kobayashi , Yuto Kawahara , Hitoshi Fuji , Kazuki Yoneyama
- Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-ku
- Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-ku
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2017-092760 20170509
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/017124 WO 20180427
- International Announcement: WO2018/207653 WO 20181115
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/08

Abstract:
A key distribution system includes a representative user terminal 2p, a server apparatus 3, and an (n+1)-th user terminal 2n+1. The representative user terminal 2p uses a public key for the (n+1)-th user terminal 2n+1 and information for identifying the (n+1)-th user terminal 2n+1 to encrypt key information with a predetermined encryption function in Certificate-less Encryption to obtain ciphertext. The server apparatus 3 sends the ciphertext to the (n+1)-th user terminal 2n+1 when the (n+1)-th user terminal 2n+1 is added. The (n+1)-th user terminal 2n+1 uses a complete secret key for the (n+1)-th user terminal 2n+1 and the information for identifying the (n+1)-th user terminal 2n+1 to decrypt the ciphertext with a predetermined decryption function to obtain the key information.
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