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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2016
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Furukawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuma Ohara, Tokyo, JP;
Toshinori Araki, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus that authenticates sets of distributed authentication information without collecting, the sets of distributed authentication information, to be collected at any one of apparatuses included in a system. The apparatus includes: a secure computation unit that determines whether master authentication information, which is stored in advance and is one information to be compared for authentication, matches authentication information, which is received from a first information processing apparatus and is the other information to be compared for authentication, by executing secure computation with a second information processing apparatus based on one set of distributed master authentication information obtained by distributing the master authentication information by using a secret distribution method and based on one set of distributed authentication information obtained by distributing the authentication information by the secret distribution method; and a process execution unit that executes a predetermined process based on the determination result.