Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Koji Mikami

Akihiro Kasahara

Hideo Shimizu

Toru Kambayashi

Masao Suga

Takehisa Kato

Shingo Miyazaki

Akio Okazaki

Yasuhiko Suzuki

Sunao Wada

Naoki Endo

Kenichi Hiramatsu

Daigo Yoshii

Akira Toshima

Koichi Noguchi

Each embodiment of this invention implements step-by-step and empirical authentication of devices upon digital authentication among a plurality of devices. Each of a plurality of authentication devices of each embodiment can unidirectionally generate a hash value of a low experience rank from a hash value of a high experience rank, and receives a set of high experience rank and hash value in accordance with an experience. Upon receiving a certification request of the experience rank from another authentication device, the authentication device transmits a corresponding hash value to the authentication device as a request source. Upon sending a certification request of an experience rank to another authentication device, the authentication device verifies a hash value obtained from the other authentication device on the basis of a self hash value. In this way, the authentication devices authenticate each other's experience ranks.

System of authentication, apparatus, program and method

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Kawasaki, Japan

Koji Mikami