ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT

• US 20130129094A1
• Filed: 08/08/2012
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishiyama, Kaoru
• Application Number:
  US13/569,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20130129094A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/277
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/88 Detecting or preventing theft or loss
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2143 Clearing memory, e.g. to prevent the data from being stolen

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic equipment includes: an instruction receiving module configured to communicate with an external equipment to receive a start-up inhibit instruction, an encryption key deletion instruction outputted from the external equipment, and an internal data deletion instruction to which an execution delay time is attached; and an instruction processing module configured to inhibit start-up of the electronic equipment to perform deletion process of the encryption key stored and to perform deletion process of the stored internal data when the start-up inhibit instruction, the encryption key deletion instruction, and the internal data deletion instruction to which the execution delay time is attached are received.

Claims

1. An electronic equipment comprising:

an instruction receiving module configured to communicate with an external equipment to receive a start-up inhibit instruction, an encryption key deletion instruction outputted from the external equipment, and an internal data deletion instruction to which an execution delay time is attached; and

an instruction processing module configured to inhibit start-up of the electronic equipment to perform a deletion process of an encryption key stored and to perform deletion process of stored internal data when the start-up inhibit instruction, the encryption key deletion instruction, and the internal data deletion instruction to which the execution delay time is attached are received.

2. An electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein

the stored encryption key is outputted to the external equipment in accordance with deletion process of the encryption key.

3. An electronic equipment according to claim 1, comprising:

a deletion process module configured to detect as to whether or not a correspondence time reaches a delay time required for delaying deletion process of the internal data, whereby the deletion process module serves to execute deletion process of the internal data when the correspondence time reaches the delay time.

4. An electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein

execution of the deletion process is notified to the external equipment when the deletion process of the internal data is executed.

5. An electronic equipment according to claim 3, wherein

the electronic equipment is permitted to be started by itself to perform write-back process of the encryption key, but not to perform the internal data deletion process in a case that a start-up enable instruction, an encryption key write-back instruction and a cancellation instruction of the internal data deletion are received when the correspondence time does not reach the delay time.

6. An electronic equipment according to claim 5, wherein

the encryption key subjected to the write-back process is outputted from the external equipment.

7. An external equipment for an electronic equipment comprising:

a receiver configured to receive the encryption key outputted from an electronic equipment; and

a storage configured to store the encryption key that is received, wherein

the electronic equipment comprising;

an instruction receiving module configured to communicate with the external equipment to receive a start-up inhibit instruction, an encryption key deletion instruction, and an internal data deletion instruction to which an execution delay time is attached; and

an instruction processing module configured to inhibit start-up of the electronic equipment to perform deletion process of the encryption key stored and to perform deletion process of the stored internal data when the start-up inhibit instruction, the encryption key deletion instruction, and the internal data deletion instruction to which the execution delay time is attached are received.

8. An external equipment according to claim 7 being is operative to receive signaling outputted from the electronic equipment to update status of the electronic equipment.

9. A method of controlling an electronic equipment comprising:

communicating with an external equipment to receive a start-up inhibit instruction, an encryption key deletion instruction, and an internal data deletion instruction to which an execution delay time is attached; and

inhibiting start-up of the electronic equipment to perform deletion process of the encryption key stored and to perform deletion process of the stored internal data when the start-up inhibit instruction, the encryption key deletion instruction, and the internal data deletion instruction to which the execution delay time is attached are received.

10. A control program of controlling an electronic equipment comprising:

communicating with an external equipment to receive a start-up inhibit instruction, an encryption deletion instruction, and an internal data deletion instruction to which an execution delay time is attached; and

inhibiting start-up of the electronic equipment to perform deletion process of the encryption key stored and to perform deletion process of the stored internal data when the start-up inhibit instruction, the encryption key deletion instruction, and the internal data deletion instruction to which the execution delay time is attached are received.