System and method for communicating encrypted data

• US 7,668,314 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2006
• Issued: 02/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kuwabara, Munemitsu, Nakabayashi, Sumie
• Primary Examiner(s): Zand; Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): GUIRGUIS, MICHAEL M
• Application Number:
  US11/362,081
• Publication Number:
  US 20060222178A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,457 Days
• Field of Search: 380/260, 380/267, 380/244, 380/261, 375/375
• US Class Current: 380/261
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/065 Encryption by serially and continuously modifying data stream elements, e.g. stream cipher systems, RC4, SEAL or A5/3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/12 Transmitting and receiving encryption devices synchronised or initially set up in a particular manner
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3226 using a predetermined code, e.g. password, passphrase or PIN network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using passwords in a packet data network H04L63/083
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23897 by partially encrypting, e.g. encrypting only the ending portion of a movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58

Abstract

An encrypted data communication system for communicating an encrypted stream as an encrypted data stream from a device at transmitting end to a device at receiving end to suppress the effect of an erroneous detection of a dummy code is disclosed. A device at transmitting end generates a data stream having the bit sequence of a marker for determination, a synchronization marker and a location identification code after the data, encrypts the bit sequence of the data and the marker for determination and transmits the encrypted stream. A device at receiving end receives the encrypted stream, detects the bit sequence of the synchronization marker and the location identification code and decrypts the encrypted stream. In the case where the bit sequence of the data and the marker for determination is decrypted, the detection of the valid bit sequence is determined, while the detection of a dummy bit sequence is determined otherwise.

Claims

1. An encrypted data communication system for communicating an encrypted stream from a device at a transmitting end to a device at a receiving end, the encrypted stream being generated by encrypting a video stream with a start code which is a unique code,

wherein the device at transmitting end includes:

an encryption processing unit for encrypting at least one part of the video stream, without the start code, by an exclusive-OR operation of a random number and at least one part of the video stream, and

a transmitter for transmitting the encrypted stream including the video stream at least one part of which is encrypted without the start code, and the start code being not encrypted, and a synchronization marker which is arranged before or after the start code; and

wherein the device at receiving end includes;

a receiver for receiving the encrypted stream,

a detector for detecting a sequence of the start code and the synchronization marker from the received encrypted stream to determine that the detected start code is valid, and

a decryptor for decrypting the received video stream at least one of which is encrypted without the start code, based on a position at which the start code is detected.

2. The encrypted data communication system according to claim 1, wherein the video stream is encoded by a predetermined compressing and encoding scheme,

wherein the video stream at least one of which is encrypted without the start code by the encryption processing unit is a data portion corresponding a header portion including the start code, and

wherein the synchronization marker includes a stuffing bit, a stuffing byte, a zero byte determined by the predetermined compressing and encoding scheme, is arranged before the start code, is not encrypted, and is transmitted by the transmitting unit.

3. The encrypted data communication system according to claim 2, wherein the device at transmitting end further includes:

a determination marker insertion unit for inserting a predetermined determination marker arranged after the data portion,

wherein the encryption processing unit encrypts the data portion including the inserted determination marker,

wherein the device at the receiving end includes a determining unit for determining, if a sequence of the data portion and the determination-marker are decrypted, that a valid location identification code is detected, and for determining, if otherwise, that a dummy code is detected, and

wherein the device at the receiving end includes a deletion unit for deleting the determination marker of the detected sequence of the data portion and the determination marker or for converting the determination marker into the stuffing bit, the stuffing byte, or the zero byte.

6. The encrypted data communication system according to claim 2, wherein the device at transmitting end includes a synchronization marker insertion unit for inserting the synchronization marker arranged before the start code before the video stream is encrypted.

4. An encrypted data communication system for communicating an encrypted stream from a device at a transmitting end to a device at a receiving end, the encrypted stream being generated by encrypting a video stream with a start code which is a unique code,

wherein the device at the transmitting end includes:

a generating unit for generating a data stream by encrypting at least one part of the video stream, without the start code, by an exclusive-OR operation of a random number and at least one part of the video stream, and transmitting the encrypted stream including the video stream at least one part of which is encrypted without the start code, and the start code being not encrypted, and a synchronization marker which is arranged before or after the start code, and

wherein the device at the receiving end includes;

a receiver for receiving the encrypted stream,

a detector for detecting a sequence of the start code and the synchronization marker from the received encrypted stream to determine that the detected start code is valid, and

a decryptor for decrypting the received video stream at least one of which is encrypted without the start code, based on a position at which the start code is detected,

wherein a predetermined determination marker is arranged after the data portion and the data portion is encrypted including the inserted determination marker,

wherein, if a sequence of the data portion and the determination-marker are decrypted, it is determined that a valid location identification code is detected, if otherwise, a dummy code is detected, and

wherein the determination marker of the detected sequence of the data portion and the determination marker are deleted, or the determination marker is converted into the stuffing bit, the stuffing byte, or the zero byte.

5. A method of decrypting an encrypted stream in an encrypted data communication system for communicating the encrypted stream from a device at a transmitting end to a device at a receiving end, the encrypted stream being generated by encrypting a video stream with a start code which is a unique code,

wherein the device at transmitting end includes:

an encryption processing unit for encrypting at least one part of the video stream, without the start code, by an exclusive-OR operation of a random number and at least one cart of the video stream, and

a transmitter for transmitting the encrypted stream including the video stream at least one part of which is encrypted without the start code, and the start code being not encrypted, and a synchronization marker which is arranged before or after the start code,

said method comprising the steps of;

receiving the encrypted stream;

detecting a sequence of the start code and the synchronization marker from the received encrypted stream to determine that the detected start code is valid; and

decrypting the received video stream, at least one of which is encrypted without the start code, based on a portion at which the start code is detected.

7. An encrypted data communication system for encrypting a video stream including a header portion and a non-header portion and the header portion having an original start code which is a unique code, and for communicating the encrypted video stream from a device at transmitting end to a device at receiving end,

wherein the device at transmitting end inserts a sequence, arranged after the original start code originally included in the video stream, of a predetermined synchronization marker and a further start code which is the same code as the original start code originally included in the video stream,

wherein the device at transmitting end transmits the video stream encrypted by an exclusive-OR operation of a random number and both of the non-header portion and the original start code arranged after the non-header portion,

wherein the device at receiving end decrypts the encrypted video stream based on a position at which the sequence of the synchronization marker and the inserted further start code is detected from the received encrypted video stream if the sequence of the synchronization marker and the inserted further start code is detected,

wherein the device at receiving end determines that the detected sequence is invalid if a final data portion of the decrypted video stream does not include the original start code, and

wherein the device at receiving end deletes a sequence of the synchronization marker and the original start code originally included in the decrypted video stream or the sequence of the synchronization marker and the inserted further start code in the decrypted video stream into the synchronization marker or converts it into a stuffing bit, a stuffing byte or a zero byte.