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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2008
Applicants:
Namsu Jho, Seoul, KR;
Dowon Hong, Daejeon, KR;
Myunghwan Kim, Seoul, KR;
Byunggil Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides an efficient method and system in which a plurality of participants share a secret key in a communication environment that is not ensured. According to an embodiment of the invention, each of the participants is assigned with a secret key from a key generation party, generates exchange information, and transmits its own exchange information to the other participant to exchange the exchange information with each other. Each of the participants generates a shared key on the basis of the exchange information and its own secret key.