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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2005
Applicant:
Takahiro Iwamura, Nishio, JP;
Inventor:
Takahiro Iwamura, Nishio, JP;
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A communication system has a plurality of nodes that perform encrypted communication via a LAN, each using an identical common cipher key. The common cipher key is replaced at fixed or irregular intervals, by being transmitted from a main node in a broadcast mode via the LAN to respective secondary nodes that are to share the key. When the key is successfully received by a secondary node, it returns a confirmation signal. The system can be configured such that a notification list of secondary nodes for which key acquisition has been confirmed is transmitted to all of the secondary nodes.