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US 2003/0118188 A1Published application
Apparatus and method for accessing material using an entity locked secure registry
OwnerDavid C. Collier, Robert Fennyinventors
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Abstract
An aparatus and for accessing material using an entity-locked secure registry is described. A host includes material encrypted with at least one content key, a secure registry encrypted with a registry key and storing access and other information for the encrypted material, and a control module configured to decrypt the secure registry for retrieval of the access and other information if a correct entity identification is received.
Claims72
An apparatus for accessing material, comprising:
- a secure registry encrypted with a registry key and storing another key useful for decrypting material;
- and
- a control module configured to decrypt said secure registry using said registry key for retrieval of said another key if a correct entity identification is received.
A method for accessing material, comprising:
- decrypting a secure registry with a registry key;
- retrieving another key from said decrypted secure registry;
- and
- decrypting encrypted material using said another key to access said material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.