METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING GROUP KEY IN VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEM

• US 20090154707A1
• Filed: 07/11/2008
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: LEE, Taek Kyu, YI, Sang Yi, HONG, Chang Su
• Application Number:
  US12/171,662
• Publication Number:
  US 20090154707A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/278
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0838 using one-time-passwords
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0822 using key encryption key
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

Provided are a system and method for distributing a group key for a video conference using a one-time password in a video conference system. The method includes: when a video terminal is required to participate in a video conference, generating a challenge value and a response value corresponding to the video terminal; encrypting a group key corresponding to the video conference with the response value, and transmitting the encrypted group key and the challenge value to the video terminal; and causing the video terminal to participate in the video conference in response to an acknowledgement message from the video terminal. This results in high user friendliness and high-level security.

Claims

1. A method for distributing a group key in a video conference system, comprising:

when a video terminal is required to participate in a video conference, generating a challenge value and a response value corresponding to the video terminal;

encrypting a group key corresponding to the video conference with the response value, and transmitting the encrypted group key and the challenge value to the video terminal; and

causing the video terminal to participate in the video conference in response to an acknowledgement message from the video terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the video terminal, the challenge value and the group key encrypted with the response value;

decoding the encrypted group key with a response value calculated from the challenge value; and

generating the acknowledgement message using the decoded group key, and transmitting the acknowledgement message to participate in the video conference.

3. A system for distributing a group key in a video conference system, comprising:

a one-time password module for generating a challenge value and a response value corresponding to a video terminal; and

a multipointing control unit for, when the video terminal is required to participate in a video conference, encrypting a group key corresponding to the video conference with the response value, transmitting the encrypted group key and the challenge value to the video terminal, and causing the video terminal to participate in the video conference in response to an acknowledgement message from the video terminal.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the video terminal comprises a one-time password token module activated by a one-time password input from a user, for receiving the challenge value and the group key encrypted with the response value, and decoding the encrypted group key with a response value calculated from the challenge value.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the multipointing control unit comprises a one-time password module for receiving the challenge value and a group key request message encrypted with the response value from the video terminal, decoding the encrypted group key request message with the response value calculated from the challenge value, and confirming a requested group key from the decoded group key request message.

6. A method for distributing a group key in a video conference system, comprising:

when a video terminal is required to participate in a video conference, generating a one-time password at a specific time based on synchronization time information with the video terminal;

encrypting a group key corresponding to the video conference with the generated one-time password and transmitting the encrypted group key to the video terminal; and

causing the video terminal to participate in the video conference in response to an acknowledgement message from the video terminal.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

generating a one-time password at a specific time based on the synchronization time information of the video terminal with a multipointing control unit;

decoding an encrypted group key received from the multipointing control unit with the generated one-time password; and

transmitting an acknowledgement message generated by the decoded group key to participate in the video conference.

8. A system for distributing a group key in a video conference system, comprising:

a one-time password module for generating a one-time password at a specific time based on synchronization time information with a video terminal; and

a multipointing control unit for, when a video terminal is required to participate in a video conference, encrypting a group key corresponding to the video conference with the generated one-time password, transmitting the encrypted group key to the video terminal, and causing the video terminal to participate in the video conference in response to an acknowledgement message from the video terminal.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the video terminal comprises a one-time password token module for generating a one-time password at a specific time based on synchronization time information with the multipointing control unit, and decoding the encrypted group key with the generated one-time password to acquire a group key.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the multipointing control unit comprises a one-time password module for receiving the encrypted group key request message, decoding the encrypted group key request message with the one-time password, and acquiring a group key corresponding to the video conference using the decoded group key request message.