EP0561685A2
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An electronic data protection system
Assignee: Fujitsu Ltd
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Filing: 1993-03-16
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2013-03-16
Abstract
Abstract The system includes : a storage medium (1) for storing an encrypted electronic data, a medium number and encrypted permission information; a vendor computer having a personal key generating unit (21) for generating a medium key based on the medium number (12), an electronic data decrypting key (22), and an encrypting unit (23) for encrypting the electronic data decrypting key based on the medium key to generate the encrypted permission information. The user computer having a personal key generating unit (31) for generating a medium key based on the medium number, a decrypting unit (32) for decrypting the encrypted permission information based on the medium key to generate the electronic data decrypting key which is the same as the electronic data decrypting key of the vendor computer, and a decrypting unit (34) for decrypting the encrypted electronic data (14) based on the electronic data decrypting key (33) to generate a plain text electronic data. <IMAGE>
Inventors
- 👤 Takayuki c/o FUJITSU LIMITED Hasebe
- 👤 Ryota C/O Fujitsu Limited Akiyama
- 👤 Makoto C/O Fujitsu Limited Yoshioka
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 22:22
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F12/00; G06F12/14; G06F12/1408; G06F21/00; G06F21/10; G06F21/101; G06F21/1014; G06F21/70; G06F21/78; G06F21/80; G06F21/805; G06F2221/00; G06F2221/21; G06F2221/2107; G06F2221/2129; G11; G11B; G11B20/00; G11B20/00086; G11B20/0021; G11B20/00217; G11B20/00253; G11B20/00347; Y; Y04; Y04S; Y04S40/00; Y04S40/20
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
176 words
An electronic data protection system for protecting electronic data from illegal copying by a third party, comprising: a storage medium (1) for storing encrypted electronic data (14), a medium number (12) and encrypted permission information (13); a vendor computer having a personal key generating means (21) for generating a medium key based on the medium number (12), an electronic data decrypting key (22), and an encrypting means (23) for encrypting the electronic data decrypting key (22) based on the medium key to generate the encrypted permission information (13); and a user computer having a personal key generating means (31) for generating a medium key based on the medium number (12), a decrypting means (32) for decrypting the encrypted permission information (13) based on the medium key to generate the electronic data decrypting key (33) which is the same as the electronic data decrypting key (22) of the vendor computer, and a decrypting means (34) for decrypting the encrypted electronic data (14) based on the electronic data decrypting key (33) to generate a plain text electronic data.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
20 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic data is software used for a computer.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
18 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic data is electronically published data.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
88 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the storage medium (1) stores a plurality of encrypted electronic data, and each encrypted electronic data has a different electronic data decrypting key; the vendor computer encrypts only electronic decrypting key of the encrypted electronic data authorized by a vendor by using the medium key, and stores the encrypted electronic data key onto the storage medium (1) as the encrypted permission information; and the user computer decrypts the encrypted electronic data corresponding to the encrypted permission information.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user computer writes the medium number (12) onto the storage medium in an un-rewritable form.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
27 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the user computer writes the medium number (12) onto the storage medium in an un-rewritable form.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
37 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vendor computer stores the encrypted permission information onto another different storage medium, and the different storage medium is supplied for use in the user computer.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
46 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vendor computer transfers the encrypted permission information to the user computer through a transmission line, and the user computer decrypts the encrypted electronic data from the storage medium based on the encrypted permission information.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
48 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vendor computer sends the encrypted permission information to the user in a document, and the user computer decrypts the encrypted electronic data from the storage medium based on the encrypted permission information described in the document.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
25 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the storage medium is an optical magnetic disk, or a partially embossed optical disk.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
36 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vendor computer further comprises a software encrypting key management table including software names and encrypting keys each corresponding to each of the software names.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
36 words
An electronic data protection system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user computer further comprises a software decrypting key management table including software names and decrypting keys each corresponding to each of the software names.
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