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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1997
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which comprises separating means for separating inputted data into identification data and data to be encrypted, determination means for determining an encryption method specified by a combination of an encryption key and an encryption algorithm in accordance with the identification data separated by the separating means, encryption means for encrypting the data to be encrypted by utilizing the encryption method determined by the determination means and generating encrypted data having the number of bits same as that of the data to be encrypted, and locating means for locating the identification data showing the encryption method used for encrypting the data to be encrypted in a predetermined position in the encrypted data.