Communication device, communication method, and communication system

• US 8,804,959 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2011
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Negishi, Masaki, Akaida, Tetsuro
• Primary Examiner(s): Hoffman, Brandon
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Michael D
• Application Number:
  US13/151,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20110305335A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,167 Days
• Field of Search: 380/255, 380/270, 340/5.8
• US Class Current: 380/255
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/805 Lightweight hardware, e.g. radio-frequency identification [RFID] or sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0838 Key agreement, i.e. key establishment technique in which a shared key is derived by parties as a function of information contributed by, or associated with, each of these network architectures or network communication protocols for key exchange in a packet data network H04L63/061
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3242 involving keyed hash functions, e.g. message authentication codes [MACs], CBC-MAC or HMAC

Abstract

Provided is a communication device including: a communication section performing proximity communication with a reader/writer; a storage section storing data and a sequence number; and a control section controlling the writing of the data to the storage section in accordance with a command from the reader/writer. The communication section sends the sequence number to the reader/writer and receives first encryption data, which is generated by the reader/writer using a value based on the sequence number and writing target data which is target data which is written into the storage section, and the writing target data from the reader/writer, and the control section generates second encryption data using the value based on the sequence number and the writing target data, writes the writing target data into the storage section, and updates the sequence number in a case where the first encryption data and the second encryption data match.

Claims

1. A communication device comprising:

a communication circuit which performs proximity communication with a reader/writer;

a memory which stores data and a sequence number where a value is updated regularly each time data is written into the memory; and

a control device which controls the writing of the data to the memory in accordance with a command from the reader/writer,

wherein the communication circuit sends the sequence number stored in the memory to the reader/writer and receives first encryption data, which is generated by the reader/writer using a value based on the sequence number and writing target data which is target data which is written into the memory, and the writing target data from the reader/writer, and

the control device generates second encryption data using the value based on the sequence number and the writing target data which is received by the communication circuit, writes the writing target data which is received by the communication circuit into the memory, and updates the sequence number stored in the memory in a case where the first encryption data and the second encryption data match,

wherein the reader/writer generates a random number and sends the random number to the communication device,

the communication circuit receives the random number sent from the reader/writer,

the control device generates a session key used in the session with the reader/writer using an individual key which is unique to the communication device which is generated using distinguishing information which distinguishes the communication device and the random number received by the communication circuit, and generates third encryption data using the distinguishing information and the session key,

the communication circuit sends the distinguishing information and the third encryption information to the reader/writer, and

the reader/writer generates the individual key using the distinguishing information sent from the communication circuit, generates the session key using the individual key and the random number, generates fourth encryption data using the distinguishing information sent from the communication circuit and the session key, performs one-side authentication which authenticates the communication device by comparing the third encryption data and the fourth encryption data, and sends the first encryption data and the writing target data to the communication device in a case where the one-side authentication is successful.

2. A communication device comprising:

a communication circuit which performs proximity communication with a reader/writer;

a memory which stores data and a sequence number where a value is updated regularly each time data is written into the memory; and

a control device which controls the writing of the data to the memory in accordance with a command from the reader/writer,

wherein the communication circuit sends the sequence number stored in the memory to the reader/writer and receives first encryption data, which is generated by the reader/writer using a value based on the sequence number and writing target data which is target data which is written into the memory, and the writing target data from the reader/writer,

the control device generates second encryption data using the value based on the sequence number and the writing target data which is received by the communication circuit, writes the writing target data which is received by the communication circuit into the memory, and updates the sequence number stored in the memory in a case where the first encryption data and the second encryption data match,

wherein a portion of a storage region of the memory is a user block which is a storage region of the smallest unit which is possible to be allocated to a service,

the user block has a plurality of units,

the units have one or more pages which are pages which are storage regions of predetermined units where writing is performed,

one unit out of the plurality of units which configure the user block is a buffer unit which functions as a buffer which buffers the data written into the user block,

the memory stores management information for managing the storage region of the memory,

the management information includes a unit number which specifies the unit, and

the control device performs writing of data to a target unit by writing the unit number of the target unit, which is a unit which is a target for data to be written into, as the unit number of the buffer unit and sets the target unit as a new buffer unit.

3. The communication device according to claim 2,

wherein the unit is configured to have one page,

another portion of the storage region of the memory is a management block which stores the management information of each of the user blocks,

the management information of the user block includes the unit numbers of each of the plurality of units of the user block and one sequence number, and

the control device updates the one sequence number which is included in the management information of the user block which has the unit where the writing target data is written into.

4. The communication device according to claim 2,

wherein the unit is configured by a plurality of pages,

one page out of the plurality of pages of one unit is a management page which stores the management information of each of the units,

the management information of the unit includes the unit number of the unit and one sequence number, and

the control device updates the one sequence number included in the management information of the unit where the writing target data is written in.

5. The communication device according to claim 2,

wherein the first encryption data and the second encryption data are generated using the value based on the sequence number, the writing target data, and the unit number of the target unit.