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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2014
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An encryption and recording apparatus storing data, the apparatus including: a first nonvolatile memory; a second nonvolatile memory; and an encryption and decryption control unit, wherein the encryption and decryption control unit: manages an area included in the second nonvolatile memory on a per-block basis, and manages association between a block and a block-unique key using key management information stored in the first nonvolatile memory; receives the data and corresponding information associated with the data; encrypts the data, using one or more block-unique keys associated with one or more blocks included in the second nonvolatile memory and writes the data to the one or more blocks; and stores the corresponding information into the key management information, associating the corresponding information and the one or more block-unique keys.