Device and program for ciphering data

• US 8,375,074 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2007
• Issued: 02/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kato, Hiromitsu, Ando, Eriko, Fukuzawa, Yasuko
• Primary Examiner(s): Yaary, Michael D
• Application Number:
  US11/739,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20080028012A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,121 Days
• Field of Search: 708250-256
• US Class Current: 708/250
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/72 in cryptographic circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/84 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0662 with particular pseudorandom sequence generator
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0869 involving random numbers or seeds

Abstract

A terminal to be connected to a network has: a data acquisition unit for acquiring first data from the network; an extraction unit for extracting second data regarding a physical quantity in accordance with the first data; a random number generation unit for generating a random number in accordance with the second data; and an enciphering unit for enciphering the first data in accordance with the random number. The terminal has further a counter unit for counting the number of the first data, wherein the random number generation unit generates a random number in accordance with the second data or a value counted by the counter unit.

Claims

1. A terminal coupled to an object, comprising:

a data acquisition unit for acquiring data of the object, as a packet;

a counter unit for counting a number of packets obtained by the data acquisition unit;

an extraction unit for obtaining a data value indicating an operation status of the object by extracting a bit string from the packet, and converting the bit string to the data value;

a random number generation unit for generating a random number by selecting one of the number of packets counted by the counter unit and the data value obtained by the extraction unit as a seed;

an enciphering unit for enciphering the packet by using the random number; and

a reference table including a type and identifier of the packet, a start point and length of the bit string, and a conversion formula used for converting the bit string to the data value, wherein;

the extraction unit extracts the bit string by referring to the identifier, the start point and the length, and converts the bit string with the conversion formula.

2. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the data acquisition unit holds an ID list of identifiers each of which identifies data of the object to be acquired, and acquires the data of the object identified by the identifiers in the ID list.

3. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein

plural data values obtained by the extracting unit are maintained in a list;

and

the random number generation unit selects one data value randomly from the list as the seed to generate the random number.

4. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the object is a vehicle.

5. The terminal according to claim 4, wherein the vehicle has a plurality of devices, each of which sends the data to be acquired by the acquisition unit to the terminal.

6. The terminal according to claim 4, wherein the data value is at least one of engine speed, yaw rate, acceleration rate, steering angle and fuel injection quantity of the vehicle.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a computer program for effecting an encrypting operation, the program, when implemented, effecting operations comprising:

acquiring data of the object, as a packet;

counting a number of packets obtained by the acquiring operation;

obtaining a data value indicating an operation status of the object by extracting a bit string from the packet, and converting the bit string to the data value;

generating a random number by selecting one of the number of packets counted by the counting operation and the data value obtained by the extracting operation as a seed;

enciphering the packet by using the random number; and

maintaining a reference table including a type and identifier of the packet, a start point and length of the bit string, and a conversion formula used for converting the bit string to the data value;

wherein the extracting operation extracts the bit string by referring to the identifier, the start point and the length, and converts the bit string with the conversion formula.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, comprising the acquiring operation references a stored ID list of identifiers, each of which identifies data of the object to be acquired, and acquires the data of the object identified by the identifiers in the ID list.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, with the program effecting further operations comprising:

maintaining plural data values obtained by the extracting operation in a list; and

selecting at least one data value randomly from the list as the seed to generate the random number.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the object is a vehicle.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the vehicle has a plurality of devices, each of which provides the data to be acquired by the acquiring operation to the terminal.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the data value is at least one of engine speed, yaw rate, acceleration rate, steering angle and fuel injection quantity of the vehicle.