Title:
CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY UPDATE NOTIFYING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2001251291
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide a cryptographic key update notifying method for simply and easily transmitting that a cryptographic key is updated between a transmission station and a receiving station.
At the time of updating the cryptographic key to be used by enciphering devices 10-1 to 10-7 by the transmission station 100, the values of the bits of the control bytes of MPEG packets 13-1 and 13-2 to be transmitted from the transmission station 100 to reception stations A to G are changed so that the update of the cryptographic key can be imparted from the transmission station 100 to the reception stations A to G.
Inventors:
KANEKO TOMOAKI
Application Number:
JP2000062130A
Publication Date:
September 14, 2001
Filing Date:
March 07, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
TOSHIBA CORP
International Classes:
G06F12/14; G06F21/60; G06F21/62; H04L9/08; H04L12/28; (IPC1-7): H04L9/08; G06F12/14; H04L12/28
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kimura Takahisa