ESTABLISHING SECURE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE AND AN EXTERNAL DEVICE

摘要

Establishing secure communication between an implantable medical device and an external device includes: accessing, at the implantable medical device, biological data; utilizing the biological data, at the implantable medical device, to generate a public cryptographic key; and utilizing the public cryptographic key, at the implantable medical device, to generate a private cryptographic key.

主权项

1. A medical device, comprising:
a converting module configured to convert biometric activity to a digital representation, to compute a metric based on the digital representation of the biometric activity, and to obtain a digital representation of the metric; and a cryptographic key generator configured to generate a cryptographic key corresponding to a portion of a random number derived directly from the digital representation of the metric.