SOFTWARE COPY PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORD MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM FOR COPYING SOFTWARE RECORDED

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To justly copy software with copyright stored in a master medium into a readable/writable storage medium with a medium identifier of a user. PSOLUTION: A storage medium individual identifier Mid of an MO medium of a copy destination and a software individual identifier DID of software of the master medium are transmitted to a copyright sales center on the side of an end user (S11). On the side of the center, after the justice of the DID is verified (S12), a conversion key Ku for a storage medium and a conversion key Ka for the master medium are created from the identifiers (S13), and an encrypted encryption telegram EMid (ku, Ka) is sent back to the end user (S14). On the end user side, the encryption telegram EMid (Ku) is written in the MO medium to obtain EMid (Ku, Ka) Ku, Ka (S15), encryption data EKa (Data) corresponding to DID are decrypted by Ka (S16), and thereafter written in the MO medium by re-encrypting it with Ku (S17). PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO