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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003

Filed:

Aug. 21, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Taro Terao, Nakai-machi, JP;

Kil-ho Shin, Nakai-machi, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/914 ; H04L 1/920 ; H04L 1/928 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/914 ; H04L 1/920 ; H04L 1/928 ;
Abstract

A method and a system for authentication whereby authentication characteristic information is not disclosed to a third party when a verifier uses a verification device of a limited scale to authenticate a user's rights or qualifications. A ticket issuing device interacts with the user's interactive device having a secret function f to calculate document secret information &mgr; based on a document m (data) to be transmitted to the interactive device, whereby the user is issued a ticket t generated from authentication characteristic information x and the document secret information &pgr;. Upon receipt of the document m, the interactive device generates the document secret information using its unique secret function f to perform an interaction based on the generated information. The interaction involves output of a commitment r, input of a challenge c, and an output of a response &sgr;. The user converts the interaction (r, c, &sgr;) into another interaction (r, c, s) using the ticket t to effect Guillou-Quisquater authentication.


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