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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022
Filed:
May. 08, 2018
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a technology for performing flexible access control to permit decoding of secret information exclusively with a specific user in a case where secret splitting is hierarchically executed. There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that generates, from a first key with which first data is decodable, a plurality of shares based on the first key in response to a first-key generation request, restores the first key from the shares based on the first key in response to a second-key generation request, encrypts, with the first key, a part of a plurality of shares based on a part or all of the first key as a second key with which second data is decodable, and generates a plurality of shares based on the second key.