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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2009
Martijn Maas, Eindhoven, NL;
Oscar Garcia Morchon, Eindhoven, NL;
Martijn Maas, Eindhoven, NL;
Oscar Garcia Morchon, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for secure communications and communication networks having communication devices, using secure means like encryption system for securing communications. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for secure communications from a first node (N) to a second node (N) in a network, the first node comprising a first node keying material (KM), the second node comprising a second node keying material (KM), wherein the keying materials of the first node and of the second node comprise each a plurality of keying root shares formed by keying root share segments. The method using key segmentation for pre-distributing keying material according to a variable distribution for increasing the resiliency of existing methods.