COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RECEIVER DEVICE

• US 20080292098A1
• Filed: 05/21/2008
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: TANAKA, Kazuo, HARA, Tatsuya, AKIMA, Isao, NATORI, Eiji
• Application Number:
  US12/124,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20080292098A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/84 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0894 Escrow, recovery or storing of secret information, e.g. secret key escrow or cryptographic key storage

Abstract

A communication system includes: a transmission device; and a reception device, wherein the transmission device includes an encryption section that encrypts a plaintext to be transmitted to the reception device with a first encryption key, and a transmission section that transmits the encrypted plaintext to the reception device; and the reception device includes a FeRAM that stores a second encryption key to pair with the first encryption key, wherein, upon reading out the second encryption key from the FeRAM, the second encryption key is erased from the FeRAM, a reception section that receives the encrypted plaintext from the transmission device, and a decoding section that decodes the received plaintext encrypted with the first encryption key with the second encryption key that is supposed to be stored in the FeRAM.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

a transmission device; and

a reception device, wherein

the transmission device includes an encryption section that encrypts a plaintext to be transmitted to the reception device with a first encryption key, and a transmission section that transmits the encrypted plaintext to the reception device; and

the reception device includes a FeRAM that stores a second encryption key to pair with the first encryption key, wherein the second encryption key is erased from the FeRAM when the second encryption key is read out from the FeRAM, a reception section that receives the encrypted plaintext from the transmission device, and a decoding section that decodes the received plaintext encrypted with the first encryption key with the second encryption key that is supposed to be stored in the FeRAM.

2. A communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a control section that controls such that the FeRAM does not perform a rewriting operation after the second encryption key has been read out from the FeRAM.

3. A communication system according to claim 1, wherein the FeRAM has 10¹⁰ times or more of rewriting durability.

4. A communication system according to claim 1, wherein the decoding section is stored in the FeRAM.

5. A reception device comprising:

a FeRAM that stores an encryption key, wherein the encryption key is erased from the FeRAM upon reading the encryption key out of the FeRAM;

a reception section that receives an encrypted plaintext; and

a decoding section that decodes the received encrypted plaintext with the encryption key that is supposed to be stored in the FeRAM.