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Method and means for securing the distribution of encoding keys

US4288659A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 21, 1979
Grant dateSep 8, 1981
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Expiry dateMay 21, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L9/0891
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An improved secured data transmission system relies on the favorable comparison of coded signals derived from information about authorized individuals and particular data terminals that is both prestored and subsequently supplied under manual command in order to generate an operating key which is then used to encode and decode data that is entered after the initialization procedure.

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