Information recording and playback system having a memory interface and method therefore

• US 7,124,317 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2001
• Issued: 10/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishibashi, Yoshihito, Yoshino, Kenji, Akishita, Toru, Shirai, Taizo
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Manoskey, Joseph D
• Application Number:
  US10/039,316
• Publication Number:
  US 20020112197A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,824 Days
• Field of Search: 714/6, 714/48, 714/52, 714/56, 714/701, 714/758, 714/766, 713/161, 713/193, 711/152, 711/163
• US Class Current: 714/6.12
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/602 Providing cryptographic facilities or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/78 to assure secure storage of data address-based protection against unauthorised use of memory G06F12/14; record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00

Abstract

An information recording device includes a control unit and a memory interface unit. An ICV for each sector data of data to be stored in units of sectors is stored in the redundant part of each sector. An ECC and an ICV are stored in the redundant part of each sector, so that sector-unit ICV storage can be performed without reducing the storage capacity of the data part of the sector. processing that combines data parts by using the file system of a device can be performed similarly to conventional data combination processing that only combines data parts in which ones purely used as data are stored. The control unit does not have any load because only each sector which is regarded as valid (no interpolation) as a result of ICV checking is transmitted to the control unit, and the ICV checking is performed by the memory interface unit.

Claims

1. An information recording device for recording actual data in actual data part of a data storage means and recording redundant data which corresponds to the actual data in a redundant part of said data storage means, said information recording device comprising:

a memory interface unit for accessing said data storage means which has a data storage area consisting of a plurality of blocks, which consists of a plurality of sectors which have an actual data part and a redundant part and

a control unit for controlling said memory interface unit,

wherein said memory interface unit includes a cryptosystem unit that generates an integrity check value based on actual data to be stored in the actual data part in response to a data-writing command from said control unit to said data storage means, and stores said integrity check value in the redundant part of the sectors in said data storage means, and

wherein said integrity check value is a value that prevents interpolation of a block permission table and the redundant part is preset as an area in which reading by a file system of the device is prevented.

2. An information recording device according to claim 1, wherein said memory interface unit executes processing in which, in the redundant data part, an integrity check value of the actual data part and an error correcting code for data to be stored in the actual data part are stored.

3. An information recording device according to claim 1, wherein:

said data storage means has a data storage area consisting of a plurality of blocks, which consists of a plurality of sectors which have a predetermined data capacity;

the actual data part and the redundant part are provided in the sectors; and

said memory interface unit generates header information corresponding to data to be stored in said data storage means, and the generated header information is flagged to indicate whether or not the integrity check value is stored in the redundant part of the sectors.

4. An information recording device according to claim 1, wherein said memory interface unit executes:

processing in which, after header information corresponding to data to be stored is generated, an integrity-check-value generating key for the data to be stored is stored in the generated header information; and

processing in which, by using the generated integrity-check-value generating key, the integrity check value is generated for the data to be stored, and is stored in the redundant part.

5. An information playback device for playing back data from data storage means in which actual data is recorded in an actual data part and redundant data corresponding to the actual data are recorded in each redundant part corresponding to the actual data part, said information playback device comprising:

a memory interface unit for accessing said data storage means which has a data storage area consisting of a plurality of blocks, each of which consists of a plurality of sectors which have an actual data part and a redundant part; and

a control unit for controlling said memory interface unit;

wherein said memory interface unit includes a cryptosystem unit that generates an integrity check value based on actual data stored in the data part in response to a data-reading command from said control unit to said data storage means, and performs actual-data-integrity verification by collating the generated integrity check value with an integrity check value which has already been stored in the redundant part of the sectors in said data storage means, and

wherein said integrity check value is a value that prevents interpolation of a block permission table and the redundant part is preset as an area in which reading by a file system of the device is prevented.

6. An information playback device according to claim 5, wherein said memory interface unit performs:

actual-data-integrity verification based on the integrity check value stored in the redundant part; and

actual-data-error correction based on an error correcting code stored in the redundant part.

7. An information playback device according to claim 5, wherein:

said data storage means has a data storage area consisting of a plurality of blocks, which consists of a plurality of sectors which have a predetermined data capacity;

the actual data part and the redundant part are provided in the sectors; and

based on information which indicates whether or not a sector-unit integrity check value is stored in the redundant part and which is determined based on header information corresponding to stored data, said cryptosystem unit executes, based on actual data, the integrity-check-value generating processing on only sector data in which an integrity check value is stored in a redundant part, and performs sector-data-integrity verification by collating the generated integrity check value with an integrity check value which has already been stored in the redundant part.

8. An information playback device according to claim 5, wherein, after said cryptosystem unit acquires an integrity-check-value generating value for stored data from header information corresponding to the stored data, said cryptosystem unit uses the generated integrity-check-value generating value to generate an integrity check value based on actual data, and executes actual-data-integrity verification processing by collating the generated integrity check value with an integrity check value which has already been stored in the redundant part.

9. An information playback device according to claim 5, wherein, in the cryptosystem unit of said memory interface unit, after an integrity check value is generated based on the actual data stored in the actual data part, actual-data-integrity verification processing is executed by collating the generated integrity check value with an integrity check value which has already been stored in the redundant part, and when the verification indicates interpolation, a read-success flag is set to indicate a failure, and a data-reading command from said control unit to said data storage medium is canceled.

10. An information recording method for an information recording device, said method comprising the steps of:

recording actual data to an actual data part of a data storage means; and

recording redundant data corresponding to the actual data in a redundant data part of said data storage means which has a data storage area consisting of a plurality of blocks, which consists of a plurality of sectors which have the actual data part and the redundant part,

wherein said information recording device comprises a memory interface unit for accessing said data storage means, and a control unit for controlling said memory interface unit;

wherein said memory interface unit generates an integrity check value based on the actual data to be stored in the actual data part in response to a data-writing command from said control unit to said data storage means, and stores the generated integrity check value in the redundant part of the sectors in said data storage means, and

wherein said integrity check value is a value that prevents interpolation of a block permission table and the redundant part is preset as an area in which reading by a file system of the device is prevented.

11. An information recording method according to claim 10, wherein said memory interface unit executes processing in which, in the redundant data part, an integrity check value of the actual data part and an error correcting code for data to be stored in the actual data part are stored.

12. An information recording method according to claim 10, wherein:

said data storage means has a data storage area consisting of a plurality of blocks, which consists of a plurality of sectors which have a predetermined data capacity;

the actual data part and the redundant data part are provided in the sectors; and

said memory interface unit generates header information corresponding to data to be stored in said data storage means, and sets, in the generated header information, a flag indicating whether or not an integrity check value is stored in the redundant part of the sectors.

13. An information recording method according to claim 10, wherein said memory interface unit executes:

processing in which, after header information corresponding to data to be stored is generated, an integrity-check-value generating key for the data to be stored is stored in the generated header information; and

processing in which, by using the generated integrity-check-value generating key, the integrity check value is generated for the data to be stored, and is stored in the redundant part.

14. An information playback method for an information playback device, said method comprising the steps of:

playing back data from a data storage means in which actual data is recorded in an actual data part; and

recording redundant data corresponding to the actual data in a redundant part,

wherein said information playback device comprises;

a memory interface unit for accessing said data storage means which has a data storage area consisting of a plurality of blocks, which consists of a plurality of sectors which have the actual data part and the redundant part; and

a control unit for controlling said memory interface unit,

wherein said memory interface unit generates an integrity check value based on actual data stored in the data part in response to a data-reading command from said control unit to said data storage means, and performs actual-data-integrity verification by collating the generated integrity check value with an integrity check value which has already been stored in the redundant part of the sectors in said data storage means, and

wherein said integrity check value is a value that prevents interpolation of a block permission table and the redundant part is preset as an area in which reading by a file system of the device is prevented.

15. An information playback method according to claim 14, wherein said memory interface unit performs:

actual-data-integrity verification based on the integrity check value stored in the redundant part; and

actual-data-error correction based on an error correcting code stored in the redundant part.

16. An information playback method according to claim 14, wherein:

said data storage means has a data storage area consisting of a plurality of blocks, which consists of a plurality of sectors which have a predetermined data capacity;

the actual data part and a redundant part corresponding to the actual data part are provided in the sectors; and

based on information which indicates whether or not a sector-unit integrity check value is stored in the redundant part and which is determined based on header information corresponding to stored data, said memory interface unit executes, based on actual data, the integrity-check-value generating processing on only sector data in which an integrity check value is stored in a redundant part, and performs sector-data-integrity verification by collating the generated integrity check value with an integrity check value which has already been stored in the redundant part.

17. An information playback method according to claim 14, wherein, after said memory interface unit acquires an integrity-check-value generating value for stored data from header information corresponding to the stored data, said memory interface unit uses the generated integrity-check-value generating value to generate an integrity check value based on actual data, and executes actual-data-integrity verification processing by collating the generated integrity check value with an integrity check value which has already been stored in the redundant part.

18. An information playback method according to claim 14, wherein, in said memory interface unit, after an integrity check value is generated based on the actual data stored in the actual data part, actual-data-integrity verification processing is executed by collating the generated integrity check value with an integrity check value which has already been stored in the redundant part, and when the verification indicates interpolation, a read-success flag is set to indicate a failure, and a data-reading command from said control unit to said data storage medium is canceled.

19. An information recording medium having a data storage area consisting of a plurality of blocks, which consists of a plurality of sectors which each have a predetermined data capacity,

wherein the plurality of sectors have an actual data part and a redundant data part,

wherein actual data is recorded in the actual data part of the sectors, and redundant data corresponding to the actual data is recorded in the redundant part of the sectors;

wherein an integrity check value which is generated based on the sector data to be stored in the actual data part is stored in the redundant part of the sectors in said data storage means; and

wherein said integrity check value is a value that prevents interpolation of a block permission table and the redundant part is preset as an area in which reading by a file system of the device is prevented.