Interoperable cryptographic key recovery system with verificatio

Details Interoperable cryptographic key recovery system with verificatio Interoperable cryptographic key recovery system with verificatio

1998-08-14

2000-04-18

Swann, Tod R.

Cryptography

Key management

Key escrow or recovery

380278, 380 28, 713171, H04L 908, H04L 914, H04L 928

Patent

active

060524693

ABSTRACT:
A cryptographic key recovery system that is interoperable with existing systems for establishing keys between communicating parties. The sender uses a reversible key inversion function to generate key recovery values P, Q and (optionally) R as a function of a session key and public information, so that the session key may be regenerated from the key recovery values P, Q and (if generated) R. Key recovery values P and Q are encrypted using the respective public recovery keys of a pair of key recovery agents. The encrypted P and Q values are included along with other recovery information in a session header accompanying an encrypted message sent from the sender to the receiver. The key recovery agents may recover the P and Q values for a law enforcement agent by decrypting the encrypted P and Q values in the session header, using their respective private recovery keys corresponding to the public keys. The R value, if generated, is not made available to the key recovery agents, but is ascertained using standard cryptanalytic techniques in order to provide a nontrivial work factor for law enforcement agents. The receiver checks the session header of a received message to ensure that the sender has included valid recovery information. Only when the receiver has verified that the sender has included valid recovery information does the receiver decrypt the received message.

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