CONDITIONAL USE PRIVATE KEY DISTRIBUTION

摘要

A computer system (10) includes a storage device (12) which accepts one or more removable storage mediums (14). The storage device (12) could be a floppy disk drive, a CD-ROM drive, a dvd drive unit or any other data storage unit. The data on the storage medium (14) is accessed by the storage reader device (16) by means of the key module (18). The key module (18) verifies that the storage device reader device (16) is authentic and that access to the digital content is allowed. The protected data on the storage media (14) are encrypted using a public key of public key/private key pair.