KEY DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND SYSTEM

• US 20110280406A1
• Filed: 07/24/2009
• Published: 11/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Ma, Jingwang, Yu, Wantao, Jia, Qian
• Application Number:
  US13/125,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20110280406A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/278
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/48 Transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/805 Lightweight hardware, e.g. radio-frequency identification [RFID] or sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/083 involving central third party, e.g. key distribution center [KDC] or trusted third party [TTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0877 using additional device, e.g. trusted platform module [TPM], smartcard, USB or hardware security module [HSM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3263 involving certificates, e.g. public key certificate [PKC] or attribute certificate [AC]; Public key infrastructure [PKI] arrangements network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823

Abstract

The present invention discloses a key distribution method and system, the method includes: a card issuer management platform informing a supplementary security domain corresponding to an application provider of generating in a smart card a public/private key pair including a public key and a private key, receiving the public key returned from the supplementary security domain, importing a public key for trust point for external authentication into the supplementary security domain, and transmitting the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key to the application provider management platform; the application provider management platform receiving the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key from the card issuer management platform, and selecting the supplementary security domain of the smart card by a service terminal according to the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key; the application provider management platform informing the supplementary security domain of regenerating a public key and a private key, generating a supplementary security domain certificate according to the regenerated public key which is returned from the supplementary security domain, and achieving the supplementary security domain key distribution by transmitting the supplementary security domain certificate to the supplementary security domain. The present invention can improve the security of the supplementary security domain key distribution.

Claims

1. A key distribution method comprising:

a card issuer management platform informing a supplementary security domain corresponding to an application provider of generating in a smart card a public/private key pair including a public key and a private key, receiving the public key returned from the supplementary security domain, importing a Trust Point'"'"'s public key for external authentication into the supplementary security domain, and transmitting the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key to an application provider management platform;

the application provider management platform receiving the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key from the card issuer management platform, and selecting the supplementary security domain of the smart card through a service terminal according to the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key; and

the application provider management platform informing the supplementary security domain of regenerating a public key and a private key, generating a supplementary security domain certificate according to the regenerated public key which is returned from the supplementary security domain, and achieving key distribution to the supplementary security domain by transmitting the supplementary security domain certificate to the supplementary security domain.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the processing of the card issuer management platform informing the supplementary security domain of generating the public/private key pair comprises:

the application provider management platform judging, through the service terminal of the application provider, whether the supplementary security domain corresponding to the application provider exists in the smart card;

if it is determined to be yes, the supplementary security domain of the application provider has existed in the smart card, then security domain creation and key distribution no longer being performed;

if no, the application provider management platform creating, through the card issuer management platform, the supplementary security domain in the smart card, and informing the created supplementary security domain of generating the public/private key pair.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the processing of the application provider management platform creating the supplementary security domain in the smart card through the card issuer management platform comprises:

the card issuer management platform communicating with the smart card through the application provider management platform, selecting an issuer security domain of the smart card and establishing a secure channel with the issuer security domain;

the card issuer management platform informing, through the secure channel, the issuer security domain of creating the supplementary security domain corresponding to the application provider;

the issuer security domain creating the supplementary security domain in the smart card.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the application provider management platform receiving the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key sent by the card issuer management platform, the method further comprises:

the application provider management platform recording in its database the information of the supplementary security domain.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the application provider management platform make a selection of the supplementary security domain according to the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key, the method further comprises:

the application provider management platform establishing a secure channel with the supplementary security domain.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the application provider management platform sends the supplementary security domain certificate to the supplementary security domain, the method further comprises:

the supplementary security domain writing the supplementary security domain certificate into the supplementary security domain.

7. A key distribution system, comprising:

a card issuer management platform which comprises;

a creating module, configured to create a supplementary security domain corresponding to an application provider in a smart card;

a first informing module, configured to inform the supplementary security domain of generating in the smart card a public/private key pair including a public key and a private key;

a first receiving module, configured to receive the public key returned from the supplementary security domain;

an importing module, configured to import a Trust Point'"'"'s public key for external authentication into the supplementary security domain;

a first transmitting module, configured to transmit the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key to an application provider management platform after performing the importing step;

the application provider management platform which comprises;

a second receiving module, configured to receive the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key from the card issuer management platform;

a selecting module, configured to select the supplementary security domain of the smart card by a service terminal according to the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key;

a second informing module, configured to inform the supplementary security domain of regenerating a public key and a private key;

a generating module, configured to generate a supplementary security domain certificate according to the regenerated public key which is returned from the supplementary security domain;

a second transmitting module, configured to transmit the supplementary security domain certificate to the supplementary security domain through a service terminal to achieve the supplementary security domain key distribution;

the service terminal, configured to establish communications with the smart card through a reading and writing device, and to establish a connection between the smart card and the application provider management platform;

the smart card, located in a mobile terminal, and comprising the supplementary security domain, wherein the supplementary security domain, configured to generate a public/private key pair, and to return the public key to the card issuer management platform through the service terminal, to regenerate a public key and a private key in the case that the application provider management platform informing the supplementary security domain of regenerating a public key and a private key, to return the regenerated public key to the application provider management platform, and to receive the supplementary security domain certificate sent by the application provider management platform.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the application provider management platform further comprises:

a judging module, configured to judge, through the service terminal of the application provider, whether the supplementary security domain corresponding to the application provider exists in the smart card;

a calling module, configured to call the creating module to create the supplementary security domain in the smart card through the card issuer management platform if the judging module judges that the supplementary security domain corresponding to the application provider does not exist in the smart card.

9. The system according to claim 7, wherein the application provider management platform further comprises:

a recording module, configured to record in its database the information of the supplementary security domain after receiving the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key sent by the card issuer management platform.

10. The system according to claim 7, wherein the application provider management platform further comprises:

a secure channel establishing module, configured to establish a secure channel with the supplementary security domain after selecting the supplementary security domain of the smart card through the service terminal according to the information of the supplementary security domain and the public key.