Cryptographic method and system
AssigneeLock Box Pty Ltd
InventorsDavid Geoffrey HOOK, Richard Hans HARVEY, Peter Kai DETTMAN
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Abstract
In the field of security for electronic data and/or communications, a method of providing data security and/or privacy in a distributed and/or decentralised network environment. Private collaboration and/or information sharing between users, agents and/or applications is enabled, as well as the sharing of key(s) and/or content between a first user and/or agent and a second user and/or agent. The sharing may be of encrypted information via information sharing services.
Claims17
A method of accessing encrypted content via one or more data stores accessible by a first user having a first computer, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a first blob to a first data store, the first blob comprising encrypted content, encrypted with a first content key;
- providing a second blob to a second data store, the second blob comprising an encrypted first content key;
- providing the first and second blobs and rights management criteria for use by the first computer;
- decrypting the second blob by the first computer to obtain the first content key and enabling the decryption of the first blob to obtain unencrypted content;
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- providing the unencrypted content by the first computer to the first user via a client-side application,
- wherein the client-side application controls operations available that the first user can perform on the content in accordance with the rights management criteria.
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