Method for allocating communication key based on android intelligent mobile terminal

• US 9,668,127 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2014
• Issued: 05/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maschoff Brennan PLLC, QuantumCTek Co., Ltd., Shandong Institute Of Quantum Science And Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: QuantumCTek Co., Ltd., Shandong Institute Of Quantum Science And Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Zhao, Yong, Liu, Chunhua
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Haresh N
• Application Number:
  US14/896,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20160119783A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,089 Days
• Field of Search: 380 79, 709224, 726 1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/80 Wireless network architectures or network communication protocols for wireless network security H04W12/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0822 using key encryption key
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/083 involving central third party, e.g. key distribution center [KDC] or trusted third party [TTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0891 Revocation or update of secret information, e.g. encryption key update or rekeying
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/16 the keys or algorithms being changed during operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/03 Protecting confidentiality, e.g. by encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/041 Key generation or derivation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/0431 Key distribution or pre-distribution; Key agreement
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/0433 Key management protocols

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for allocating a communication key based on an Android intelligent mobile terminal. By establishing a universal secret communication platform on the bottom layer of an Android operating system, an intelligent mobile terminal is equipped with the functions of being able to interact with a secret communication support network, receiving a two-level key and using a received service key after decrypting same, thereby being able to provide universal bottom-layer support for a VoIP secret call, a secret short message, a secret video call, file encryption transmission, secure mobile payment and other communication services which require secrecy support. The secret communication support network provides the service keys required for various communication services for a reformed intelligent mobile terminal, and after obtaining the service keys, the intelligent mobile terminal uses same to conduct the secret communication.

Claims

1. A method for distributing communication keys based on an Android intelligent mobile terminal, comprising:

(1) establishing a universal secret communication platform in bottom layers of an Android operating system, invoking Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of the universal secret communication platform in source codes of communication software programs in an application layer, compiling modified source codes of the Android operating system into an image file, and writing the image file into the intelligent mobile terminal;

(2) directly connecting the intelligent mobile terminal to a key terminal in a secret communication support network, downloading shared keys between the intelligent mobile terminal and the secret communication support network, storing the shared keys into the intelligent mobile terminal, and disconnecting the intelligent mobile terminal with the key terminal after the shared keys are downloaded;

(3) after a communication service is initiated, generating, by the intelligent mobile terminal, a service key acquisition thread by invoking the APIs of the universal secret communication platform in the bottom layers of the system, and requesting service keys for the communication from the secret communication support network;

(4) distributing, by the secret communication support network, the service keys for the communication to the intelligent mobile terminal participating in the communication, after the request for the service keys is received;

(5) receiving, by the intelligent mobile terminal, the service keys for the communication from the secret communication support network by invoking the APIs of the universal secret communication platform in the bottom layers of the system; and

storing, by the intelligent mobile terminal, the service keys in a memory space of the intelligent mobile terminal; and

(6) performing, by the intelligent mobile terminal, a secret communication by using the service keys.

2. The method for distributing the communication keys based on the Android intelligent mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the step (1) of establishing the universal secret communication platform comprises:

(1-1) adding a secret communication function library in a C/C++ framework layer of source codes of the Android operating system, wherein the secret communication function library is configured to realize a basic function related to the secret communication, the basic function comprises instruction interaction with the secret communication support network, key request, key downloading, key management and encryption-decryption operations; and

an invocation to the secret communication function library is provided for a Java framework layer of the Android through Java Native Interface (JNI), and the secret communication function library is compiled into a ‘

*.so’

library file; and

(1-2) adding a secret communication class to the Java framework layer of the source codes of the Android operating system, wherein the secret communication class invokes the secret communication function library in the C/C++ framework layer with the JNI interface, encapsulates and extends the secret communication function library in the Java framework layer, and provides an upper application layer with secret communication related system APIs, which are the APIs of the universal secret communication platform and to be invoked by various communication software in the application layer.

3. The method for distributing the communication keys based on the Android intelligent mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the step (3) of requesting, by the intelligent mobile terminal, the service keys comprises:

(3-1) after the communication service is initiated, invoking, by the communication software in the application layer, the APIs of the universal secret communication platform in the bottom layers of the system; and

generating a new service key acquisition thread, wherein the new service key acquisition thread is connected to the secret communication support network wirelessly; and

(3-2) after the connection is established, transmitting, by the intelligent mobile terminal, information related to the communication to the secret communication support network, to request service keys for the communication, wherein the information comprises an identity of a calling terminal, an identity of a called terminal, authentication information, information for indicating which service the service keys are requested for, and information for indicating whether the service keys are used to perform encryption or decryption.

4. The method for distributing the communication keys based on the Android intelligent mobile terminal according to claim 3, wherein the step (4) of distributing, by the secret communication support network, the service keys to the intelligent mobile terminal comprises:

(4-1) establishing a network service thread, to wait for a connection to the service key acquisition thread of the intelligent mobile terminal;

(4-2) after a connection to the intelligent mobile terminal is established and the request for the service keys is received from the intelligent mobile terminal, obtaining a service type of the communication, an identity of the terminal, authentication information and a purpose of the service keys, determining whether the intelligent mobile terminal has permission to request the service keys; and

distributing the service keys to be downloaded to an intelligent mobile terminal having the permission;

(4-3) encrypting, by the secret communication support network, the service keys to be transmitted, by using the shared keys between the intelligent mobile terminal and the secret communication support network; and

(4-4) transmitting, by the secret communication support network, the encrypted service keys to the intelligent mobile terminal wirelessly.

5. The method for distributing the communication keys based on the Android intelligent mobile terminal according to claim 4, wherein for the shared keys between the secret communication support network and the intelligent mobile terminal,

(5-1) current usage information of the shared keys is stored in a header of the shared keys stored in the secret communication support network;

and the header is filtered out, when the shared keys are downloaded to the intelligent mobile terminal;

(5-2) when encrypting the service keys, the secret communication support network extracts a current usage location of the shared keys from the header of the shared keys between the secret communication support network and the intelligent mobile terminal;

encrypts the service keys to be transmitted, by using the shared keys at the current usage location;

implicitly adds the information on the location in an idle reserved bit of the encrypted service keys; and

updates the header of the shared keys;

(5-3) after receiving the encrypted service keys transmitted by the secret communication support network, the intelligent mobile terminal extracts the information on the location implied in the encrypted service keys, and decrypts the received service keys by combining the shared keys between the intelligent mobile terminal and the secret communication support network stored in the intelligent mobile terminal with the information on the location and using the shared keys at the location; and

(5-4) in a case that the amount of shared keys between the secret communication support network and the intelligent mobile terminal is not enough, the intelligent mobile terminal downloads new shared keys from the secret communication support network according to the step (2).

6. The method for distributing the communication keys based on the Android intelligent mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the step (5) of receiving the service keys, by the intelligent mobile terminal, comprises:

once the amount of the service keys downloaded by the intelligent mobile terminal reaches a minimal threshold under which a secret communication is to be performed for a current service type, informing a corresponding application of being capable of using the service keys, and then using the service keys while continuously downloading the service keys until the service keys are downloaded completely.

7. The method for distributing the communication keys based on the Android intelligent mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein in the memory space of the intelligent mobile terminal in the step (5),

(7-1) a logically annular memory space is set up by the intelligent mobile terminal for each service key acquisition thread, wherein the annular memory space is configured to store the service keys received from the secret communication support network, and a size of the memory space depends on a service type;

(7-2) a reading location pointer is provided by the intelligent mobile terminal for each annular memory space for storing the service keys, wherein in a secret communication using the service keys, the appropriate amount of service keys are read from a location pointed by the reading location pointer, and then are used to perform encryption-decryption on communication information;

the reading location pointer moves on in the annular memory space and always points to a starting address of the service keys to be read next time, and the service keys are continued to be read from the beginning of the annular space when the pointer passes the end of the annular space; and

(7-3) a writing location pointer is provided by the intelligent mobile terminal for each annular memory space for storing the service keys, wherein the received service keys are stored into the annular memory space from a location pointed by the writing location pointer;

the writing location pointer moves on in the annular memory space and always points to a starting address of the annular memory space where service keys are stored next time, and service keys are continuously written from the beginning of the annular space when the pointer passes the end of the annular space;

the amount of service keys requested from the secret communication support network each time does not exceed a size of the annular memory space;

(7-4) after the service keys are downloaded the first time, in a case that a distance between locations pointed by the writing location pointer and reading location pointer respectively in the annular memory space reaches a predetermined threshold, the intelligent mobile terminal requests to download service keys again from the secret communication support network; and

(7-5) after the communication service is ended, the memory space for storing the service keys is retrieved by the system, and data in the memory space are destroyed.

8. The method for distributing the communication keys based on the Android intelligent mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the shared keys and/or the service keys are used in a way of one-time pad.

9. The method for distributing the communication keys based on the Android intelligent mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the step (3) of requesting, by the intelligent mobile terminal, the service keys comprises:

(3-1) after the communication service is initiated, invoking, by the communication software in the application layer, the APIs of the universal secret communication platform in the bottom layers of the system; and

generating a new service key acquisition thread, wherein the new service key acquisition thread is connected to the secret communication support network wirelessly; and

(3-2) after the connection is established, transmitting, by the intelligent mobile terminal, information related to the communication to the secret communication support network, to request service keys for the communication, wherein the information comprises an identity of a calling terminal, an identity of a called terminal, authentication information, information for indicating which service the service keys are requested for, and information for indicating whether the service keys are used to perform encryption or decryption.

10. The method for distributing the communication keys based on the Android intelligent mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein the shared keys and/or the service keys are used in a way of one-time pad.