Cipher method and system for multicast service

• US 20070005958A1
• Filed: 09/08/2005
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Tsao, Shiao-Li, Lin, Chia-Chin, Hsu, Yu-Ching
• Application Number:
  US11/220,587
• Publication Number:
  US 20070005958A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/163
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/601 Broadcast encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/065 for group communications cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key management involving conference or group key H04L9/0833
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0833 involving conference or group key network architectures or network communication protocols for key management in group communication in a packet data network H04L63/065

Abstract

A cipher method and system for multicast service. A group includes multiple user equipment, each having a respective key. The keys are orthogonal to one another. A content provider provides a raw message to the user equipment of the group. A BM-SC server has a key set composed of the respective keys of all user equipment of the group to encipher the raw message to thus obtain an enciphered message for broadcast. All user equipment of the group receives and deciphers the enciphered message with the respective keys. When a user equipment leaves the group, the key set held by BM-SC is updated by removing the key of the leaving user equipment.

Claims

1. A cipher system for multicast service, comprising:

a group, which has multiple user equipments with respective keys orthogonal to one another;

a content provider, which provides a message to the user equipments of the group; and

a broadcast multi-service center (BM-SC) server, which has a key set composed of the keys of all user equipments of the group to accordingly encipher the message provided by the content provider so as to obtain an enciphered message for broadcast, such that all user equipments of the group receive and decipher the enciphered message with the respective keys, thereby correctly receiving the message.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the BM-SC server enciphers the message provided by the content provider with an enciphering function f(d, K)=d*(SUM(K)), where d represents original data of the message, SUM is an addition function, and * indicates a multiplication.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein all user equipments of the group deciphers the enciphered message with a deciphering function g(c, k_i)=c*k_i/||k_i||, where k_i indicates the respective key of a user equipment, c represents enciphered data of the message, and ||k_i|| indicates a length of the key k_i.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the BM-SC server removes the respective key of a user equipment from the key set when the user equipment leaves the group.

5. A cipher method for multicast service, the multicast service using a content provider to provide a message to multiple user equipments of a group, a broadcast multi-service center (BM-SC) server to encipher the message provided by the content provider to thus obtain an enciphered message for broadcast, and the user equipments of the group to receive and decipher the enciphered message, the method comprising the steps of:

(A) assigning a respective key to each user equipment of the group, wherein the respective keys are orthogonal to one another;

(B) providing a message by the content provider;

(C) using the broadcast multi-service center (BM-SC) server to encipher the message with a key set composed of the respective keys of all user equipments of the group, thereby obtaining an enciphered message for broadcast; and

(D) receiving and deciphering the enciphered message with the respective keys of the user equipments of the group, thereby correctly receiving the message.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the BM-SC server in step (C) enciphers the message provided by the content provider with an enciphering function f(d, K)=d*(SUM(K)), where d represents original data of the message, SUM is an addition function, and * indicates a multiplication.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein all user equipments of the group in step (D) deciphers the enciphered message with a deciphering function g (c, k_i)=c*k_i/||k_i||, where k_i indicates the respective key of a user equipment, c represents enciphered data of the message, and ||k_i|| indicates a length of the key k_i.

8. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising:

(E) using the BM-SC server to remove the respective key of a user equipment from the key set when the user equipment leaves the group.