INCORPORATING DATA INTO CRYPTOGRAPHIC COMPONENTS OF AN ECQV CERTIFICATE

摘要

During generation of an implicit certificate (102, 638) for a requestor (100, 600), a certificate authority (104, 620) incorporates information in the public-key reconstruction data (110), where the public-key reconstruction data is to be used to compute the public key (648) of the requestor. The information may be related to one or more of the requestor, the certificate authority, and the implicit certificate. The certificate authority reversibly encodes the public- key reconstruction data in the implicit certificate and sends it to the requestor. After receiving the implicit certificate from the certificate authority, the requestor can extract the incorporated information from the public-key reconstruction data. The implicit certificate can be made available to a recipient (114, 654), and the recipient can also extract the incorporated information.