Technique for producing privately authenticatable cryptographic

Details Technique for producing privately authenticatable cryptographic Technique for producing privately authenticatable cryptographic

1998-06-23

2000-12-19

Hayes, Gail O.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Multiple computer communication using cryptography

Particular communication authentication technique

H04L 900

Patent

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061638412

ABSTRACT:
A technique for generating, for a given message to be signed, an authentic cryptographic signature that can be authenticated, by a recipient of the signed message, as having originated from a signor of the message; and appropriately authenticating such a signature. Specifically, this technique, given a message, such as, e.g., a numerical product copy identifier (83, 93), forms an authentic signature (87, 97), based on public-key cryptosystem, through use of generator value selected from points on an elliptic curve over a finite field. The authentic signature is generated using the generator value in conjunction with three keys; namely, a public key, a private key and a secret key, and thus substantially increases the security associated with cryptographic signatures generated through a conventional two-key public-key cryptosystem. A unique product copy indicia can be formed by concatenating the identifier, for a given product copy, with its corresponding authentic signature. During subsequent user installation of that copy to a computer, the user enters the indicia when prompted by execution of an installation program which, in turn, privately authenticates the signature contained in the indicia in order to continue or prematurely terminate the installation.

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