To provide improve the security while suppressing degradation in the operating efficiency of wireless resources when encrypted information is distributed in a wireless communication system for performing a multicast or broadcast distribution service.

A wireless communication method for transmitting distribution information from an information distribution apparatus to a wireless communication terminal includes: a step conducted by the information distribution apparatus side, of encrypting the distribution information; a step conducted by the information distribution apparatus side, of detecting an encrypted information distribution channel for distributing the encrypted information used for the encryption to a particular wireless communication terminal; a step conducted by the information distribution apparatus side, of transmitting the encrypted information by using the encrypted information distribution channel: a step conducted by the particular wireless communication terminal, of receiving the encrypted information through the encrypted information distribution channel; and a step conducted by the particular wireless communication terminal, of decrypting the encrypted distribution information on the basis of the encrypted information.