Document management apparatus and document management method, and storage medium storing program

• US 20060095795A1
• Filed: 05/31/2005
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Osamu, Aonuma, Mitsuru
• Granted Patent: US 7,627,765 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/193
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/60 Digital content management, e.g. content distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3236 using cryptographic hash functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3297 involving time stamps, e.g. generation of time stamps

Abstract

A document management apparatus includes a hash generator that generates a hash value based on digital document data stored in a database, a communication unit that inputs time information, and a microfilm writer that performs processing to record a converted document data, converted to image data based on the digital document data, on a microfilm, and record a document ID as identification information of the converted document data recorded on the microfilm, the hash value, and the time information, on the microfilm.

Claims

1. A document management apparatus comprising:

a hash generator that generates a hash value based on digital document data stored in a database;

a communication unit that inputs time information; and

a microfilm writer that performs processing to record a converted document data, converted to image data based on the digital document data, on a microfilm, and record a document ID as identification information of the converted document data recorded on the microfilm, the hash value, and the time information, on the microfilm.

2. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a bar code generator that converts the document ID, the hash value and the time information into bar codes,

wherein the microfilm writer records the document ID, the hash value and time information, as bar code information generated by the bar code generator, on the microfilm.

3. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a microfilm reader that reads information from the microfilm where the document ID, the hash value and the time information, with the converted document data, are recorded; and

a data processor that performs comparison processing between a hash value calculated based on the digital document data stored in the database and the hash value read from the microfilm,

wherein occurrence/nonoccurrence of data tampering is checked based on a result of the comparison.

4. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit transmits the hash value based on the digital document data, generated by the hash generator, to a time stamping authority, and receives proof data where a digital signature is applied to data including the hash value and the time information from the time stamping authority,

the document management apparatus has a data processor that performs signature verification processing on the proof data, and on the condition that no data tampering has been made, obtains the hash value and the time information from the proof data, and

the microfilm writer records the hash value and the time information, obtained from the proof data received from the time stamping authority, on the microfilm.

5. A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a computer program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for document management processing on the computer, the function comprising:

generating a hash value based on digital document data stored in a database;

inputting time information; and

performing processing to record a converted document data, converted to image data based on the digital document data, on a microfilm, and record a document ID as identification information of the converted document data recorded on the microfilm, the hash value, and the time information, on the microfilm.

6. The storage medium storing a computer program according to claim 5, wherein the function further comprises:

converting the document ID, the hash value and the time information into bar codes,

wherein processing is performed to record the document ID, the hash value and time information, as generated bar code information, on the microfilm.

7. The storage medium storing a computer program according to claim 5, wherein the function further comprises:

reading information from the microfilm where the document ID, the hash value and the time information, with the converted document data, are recorded; and

performing comparison processing between a hash value calculated based on the digital document data stored in the database and the hash value read from the microfilm.

8. The storage medium storing a computer program according to claim 5, wherein the function further comprises:

transmitting the hash value based on the digital document data, generated in the hash value generation, to a time stamping authority, and receiving proof data where a digital signature is applied to data including the hash value and the time information from the time stamping authority; and

performing signature verification processing on the proof data, and on the condition that no data tampering has been made, obtaining the hash value and the time information from the proof data,

wherein the hash value and the time information obtained from the proof data received from the time stamping authority are recorded on the microfilm.

9. A document management method comprising:

generating a hash value based on digital document data stored in a database;

inputting time information; and

performing processing to record a converted document data, converted to image data based on the digital document data, on a microfilm, and record a document ID as identification information of the converted document data recorded on the microfilm, the hash value, and the time information, on the microfilm.

10. The document management method according to claim 9 further comprising:

converting the document ID, the hash value and the time information into bar codes,

wherein processing is performed to record the document ID, the hash value and time information, as generated bar code information, on the microfilm.

11. The document management method according to claim 9 further comprising:

reading information from the microfilm where the document ID, the hash value and the time information, with the converted document data, are recorded; and

performing comparison processing between a hash value calculated based on the digital document data stored in the database and the hash value read from the microfilm.

12. The document management method according to claim 9 further comprising:

transmitting the hash value based on the digital document data, generated in the hash value generation, to a time stamping authority, and receiving proof data where a digital signature is applied to data including the hash value and the time information from the time stamping authority; and

performing signature verification processing on the proof data, and on the condition that no data tampering has been made, obtaining the hash value and the time information from the proof data,

wherein the hash value and the time information obtained from the proof data received from the time stamping authority are recorded on the microfilm.