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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
May. 01, 2006
Zeev Geyzel, Alon Shvut, IL;
Leo Dorrendorf, Maale Adumim, IL;
Zeev Geyzel, Alon Shvut, IL;
Leo Dorrendorf, Maale Adumim, IL;
Cisco Technology, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for restricting access to encrypted content stored in a consuming device () which is part of a network () including other devices (), the system including a content storage medium to store the encrypted content, a secret-share distribution module to distribute secret-shares to the other devices (), a secret-share receive module to receive the secret-shares from the other devices (), a secret reconstruction module to form a content decryption input from the secret-shares received by the secret-share receive module, a content decryption module to receive the encrypted content from the content storage medium and the content decryption input from the secret reconstruction module and decrypt the encrypted content using the content decryption input thereby rendering decrypted content, and a content consumer to use the decrypted content, wherein the secret shares distributed to the other devices () are in an encrypted format for decryption by the consuming device () or the other devices ().