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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2021
Ntt, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Sakae Chikara, Tokyo, JP;
Tsunekazu Saito, Tokyo, JP;
NTT, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication system according to one embodiment is a communication system including a plurality of communication apparatuses, in which each communication apparatus includes: an application program configured to perform encrypted communication with another communication apparatus; a protocol conversion unit configured to transmit a message representing a predetermined procedure when a key request for a shared key to be used in the encrypted communication is received from the application program; a state management unit configured to receive a message from the protocol conversion unit to manage an execution state of the procedure, and to transmit the message to a protocol driver supporting a predetermined key sharing protocol; and a protocol driver configured to request a key sharing system that executes the key sharing protocol, to generate the shared key, when the message is received from the state management unit.