MUMBAI, India, March 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617014451 A) filed by Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, on Feb. 10, for 'key management device, key management system, key management method, key management program, and computer-readable storage medium.'
Inventor(s) include Misawa, Yuto.
The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The purpose of the present invention is to specify a user using a PKCS#11-based HSM. A key management device according to an embodiment comprises: a first acquisition unit that acquires pre-authentication information including a user ID, authentication information, and encrypted authentication information; a storage unit that securely stores a DB key; a first authentication unit that decrypts the encrypted authentication information using the DB key and performs authentication using the decrypted authentication information and the authentication information; a generation unit that generates a ticket associated with the user ID on the basis of an authentication result, and generates a pre-authentication response including the ticket; a first output unit that outputs the pre-authentication response; a second acquisition unit that acquires session information including the ticket; a second authentication unit that authenticates the session information on the basis of the ticket included in the session information and generates a cipher key corresponding to the ticket; and a second output unit that outputs an authentication result from the second authentication unit."
The patent application was internationally filed on June 25, 2024, under International application No.PCT/JP2024/023017.
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