Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Jun Nakashima

Kiyoshi Fukui

Taketsugu Yao

First communication units use a public key thereof certified by a certification authority on a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), which is held by the first communication units in advance, and a secret key of the first communication units or delegation information generated by using secret information, as public key certificate, of the first communication units to thereby allow a proxy server to perform security processing, i.e. key exchange processing, authentication processing or processing for providing compatibility of encryption schemes, between the first communication units and a second communication unit on behalf of the first communication units.

Proxy system for security processing without entrusting certified secret information to a proxy

In a communicator in a communication system, a commission information generator for generating a commission parameter to make a process on a communication between communicators performed by another computer includes a first memory for storing a secret key and an encrypter for generating N number of the commission parameters, where N is a natural number, from a first to an N-th commission parameter. The encrypter regards a j-th shared key, where j is a positive integer equal to or less than N, out of the N number of shared keys as key information, encrypts a bit sequence representation of j-th partial information, associated with the j-th shared key, out of N pieces of partial information, and thereby generates a j-th commissioned parameter.

Commission information generator for making processes on communication performed by another computer

A communication terminal generates a temporary network key based on a managed master network key and on key identification used for security processing on a communication frame. The security processing is performed on the communication frame using the temporary network key. A secure communication frame is produced in which the identification of the key is indicated.

Communication terminal using a temporary network key for assembling a secure communication frame

A communication device receives secure communication frames on which a security transform has been performed to permit authentication. The communication device maintains an authentication history and a local time varying parameter. In multi-hop communication, the communication device provisionally verifies the freshness of a received secure communication frame by verifying that identifying information extracted from the frame is not already present in the authentication history and that a received time varying parameter extracted from the frame is not older than the local time varying parameter by more than a certain margin. If these freshness tests both pass, the frame is authenticated. If authentication succeeds, the frame is transmitted on the next hop without performance of a new security transform.

Communication system and device

A radio communication terminal and a radio communication system which can avoid an obstacle that is caused by a malicious wormhole while using a harmless wormhole. There are provided: a radio communication terminal in which a relay route about a certain node is stored as a backup route about the node and the backup route is changed and set as a relay route about the node in accordance with a detection of an obstacle caused by application data; and a radio communication system in which a sink node transmits a transfer destination change command in association with the change setting and a node which received the command sets a node of a transferring source of the command as a transfer destination node.

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Osaka, Japan

Jun Nakashima