Key setting method, node, and network system

• US 8,719,563 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2013
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Furukawa, Kazuyoshi, Takenaka, Masahiko, Izu, Tetsuya, Kojima, Hisashi
• Primary Examiner(s): LEMMA, SAMSON B
• Application Number:
  US13/749,130
• Publication Number:
  US 20130138950A1
• Time in Patent Office: 467 Days
• Field of Search: 713/153, 713/160, 713/168, 713/171, 726/3, 726/12, 380/44, 380/247, 380/255
• US Class Current: 713/153
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/062 for key distribution, e.g. centrally by trusted party cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution involving a central third party H04L9/0819
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/08 Key distribution or management, e.g. generation, sharing or updating, of cryptographic keys or passwords network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting key management in a packet data network H04L63/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/0431 Key distribution or pre-distribution; Key agreement
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/22 with access to wired networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements

Abstract

A key setting method executed by a node transmitting and receiving data through multi-hop communication in an ad-hoc network among multiple ad-hoc networks, includes detecting connection with a mobile terminal communicating with a server connected to a gateway in each ad-hoc network among the ad-hoc networks; transmitting by simultaneously reporting to the ad-hoc network, an acquisition request for a key for encrypting the data when the connection with the mobile terminal is detected at the detecting; receiving from the server via the mobile terminal, a key specific to a gateway and transmitted from the gateway to the server consequent to transfer of the simultaneously reported acquisition request to the gateway in the ad-hoc network; and setting the key specific to the gateway received at the receiving as the key for encrypting the data.

Claims

1. A key setting method executed by a node that transmits and receives data through multi-hop communication in an ad-hoc network among a plurality of ad-hoc networks, the key setting method comprising:

detecting connection with a mobile terminal communicating with a server connected to a gateway in each ad-hoc network among the ad-hoc networks;

transmitting by simultaneously reporting to the ad-hoc network, an acquisition request for a key for encrypting the data when the connection with the mobile terminal is detected at the detecting;

receiving from the server via the mobile terminal, a key specific to a gateway and transmitted from the gateway to the server consequent to transfer of the simultaneously reported acquisition request to the gateway in the ad-hoc network; and

setting the key specific to the gateway received at the receiving as the key for encrypting the data.

2. The key setting method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving a transmission instruction for an acquisition request for a key for encrypting the data from the mobile terminal for which connection is detected at the detecting step, wherein

the transmitting includes simultaneously reporting the acquisition request to the ad-hoc network, when the transmission instruction is received at the receiving.

3. The key setting method according to claim 2, wherein

the transmitting includes simultaneously reporting to the ad-hoc network, the acquisition request including an identifier of the mobile terminal, by which the server identifies a communication destination included in the transmission instruction.

4. The key setting method according to claim 2, wherein

the transmitting includes simultaneously reporting to the ad-hoc network, the acquisition request including an identifier of the node by which the server identifies the node for which the key specific to the gateway has been transmitted.

5. The key setting method according to claim 1, further comprising transferring by simultaneously reporting the acquisition request to the ad-hoc network, when the acquisition request is received from another node different from the node in the ad-hoc network.

6. A node that transmits and receives data through multi-hop communication in an ad-hoc network among a plurality of ad-hoc networks, the node comprising a processor;

the processor configured to;

detect connection with a mobile terminal communicating with a server connected to a gateway in each ad-hoc network among the ad-hoc networks;

transmit by simultaneously reporting to the ad-hoc network, an acquisition request for a key for encrypting the data upon detection of the connection with the mobile terminal;

receive from the server via the mobile terminal, the key specific to a gateway and transmitted from the gateway to the server consequent to transfer of the simultaneously reported acquisition request to the gateway in the ad-hoc network; and

set the received key specific to the gateway as the key for encrypting the data.

7. The node according to claim 6, wherein

the receiver configured to receive a transmission instruction for an acquisition request for a key for encrypting the data from the mobile terminal for which connection is detected,

the transmitter simultaneously reports the acquisition request to the ad-hoc network, upon receipt of the transmission instruction.

8. The node according to claim 6, wherein

the transmitter simultaneously reports to the ad-hoc network, the acquisition request including an identifier of the mobile terminal, by which the server identifies a communication destination included in the transmission instruction.

9. The node according to claim 7, wherein

the transmitter simultaneously reports to the ad-hoc network, the acquisition request including an identifier of the node by which the server identifies the node for which the key specific to the gateway has been transmitted.

10. The node according to claim 8, wherein

the transmitter simultaneously reports to the ad-hoc network, the acquisition request including an identifier of the node by which the server identifies the node for which the key specific to the gateway has been transmitted.

11. The node according to claim 6, wherein

the transmitter is configured to transfer by simultaneously reporting the acquisition request to the ad-hoc network, upon receipt of the acquisition request from another node different from the node in the ad-hoc network.

12. A network system comprising:

a node that transmits and receives a packet through multi-hop communication in an ad-hoc network among a plurality of ad-hoc networks, the node comprising a first processor; and

a server connected to a gateway in each ad-hoc network of the ad-hoc networks, the server comprising a second processor, wherein

the first processor is configured to;

detect connection with a mobile terminal capable of communicating with the server,

transmit by simultaneously reporting to the ad-hoc network upon detecting the connection with the mobile terminal, an acquisition request for a key for encrypting the data,

receive from the server via the mobile terminal, the key specific to a gateway and transmitted from the gateway to the server consequent to transfer of the simultaneously reported acquisition request to the gateway in the ad-hoc network, and

set the received key specific to the gateway as the key for encrypting the data, and wherein

the second processor is configured to;

receive the key specific to the gateway from the gateway in the ad-hoc network to which the acquisition request is transferred, and

transmit to the node, via the mobile terminal, the received key specific to the gateway.