Airplane Identity Management with Redundant Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) and Composite Airplane Modifiable Information (AMI)

摘要

The present invention generally relates to one or more line replacement units (“LRUs”) for an airplane. The LRUs can include airline modifiable information (“AMI”) that includes more than one public key certificates, wherein each of the more than one public key certificates uniquely identifies the airplane for ground communication based, at least in part, on a public key or a private key associated with the one or more public/private key pairs generated by a cryptographic key generator.

主权项

1. A line replacement unit (“LRU”) (110a, 110b, 110c) for an airplane (105a, 105b), comprising:
an airline modifiable information (“AMI”) (115) comprising more than one public key certificates (120), wherein each of the more than one public key certificates (120) uniquely identifies the airplane (105a, 105b) for ground communication based, at least in part, on a public key associated with one or more public/private key pairs generated by a cryptographic key generator (215).