Cryptography – Key management – Key distribution
Patent
1998-03-30
2000-09-12
Swann, Tod R.
Cryptography
Key management
Key distribution
380 46, 380286, 713156, H04L 908, H04L 932
Patent
active
061188743
ABSTRACT:
When a secret is encrypted and stored, it is necessary to provide a countermeasure for the situation where a key is lost (key recovery system). In the present invention, a key recovery system for an enveloped data format in which a common key is used to encrypt a plaintext (secret) and a user's public key is used to encrypt the common key and attached to an encrypted text is provided. In the present invention, only the common key is decrypted to recover the secret without reconstruction of split secret keys kept in a plurality of key storage apparatuses.
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Domyo Seiichi
Kawai Tooru
Mambo Masahiro
Okamoto Eiji
Takaragi Kazuo
Darrow Justin T.
Fujitsu Limited
Hitachi , Ltd.
Mambo Masahiro
Okamoto Eiji
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