SCRAMBLE KEY MANAGEMENT UNIT, SCRAMBLE KEY MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TRANSMITTING UNIT, METHOD FOR SCRAMBLE KEY OUTPUT MANAGEMENT, SCRAMBLE KEY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, LICENSE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT UNIT, LICENSE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TRANSMITTING UNIT, METHOD FOR LICENSE INFORMATION OUTPUT MANAGEMENT, AND LICENSE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

摘要

A low cost scramble key management apparatus which enables to manage a scramble key based on individual contract information and to ensure security in narrow band broadcasting. The scramble key management apparatus 7 includes an ECM decoding unit 75 for decoding an ECM in which a scramble key and individual contract information are encrypted. The individual contract information includes contract information indicating contract statuses of a plurality of content receivers 3, 3, . . . which is arranged based on receiver IDs for identifying each of the content receivers 3. The scramble key management apparatus 7 includes a contract information obtaining unit 76b for obtaining the contract information of the content receiver 3 associated with the receiver ID from the individual contract information and a contract status determining unit 76c for determining the contract status and outputting the scramble key to a content decoder 5 if the contract status is under contract.