METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROTECTED DISTRIBUTION OF DIGITALIZED SENSITIVE INFORMATION

摘要

A method of protecting sensitive information in an information exchange between a first data processing system (105) suitable to supply sensitive information and a second data processing system (110a; 110b) suitable to use sensitive information comprises: selecting in the first data processing system a sub-set of sensitive information elements from a collection of digital sensitive information elements; storing the selected sub-set of sensitive information elements into a responsive software agent (165; 170, 175) suitable to automatically react to information queries; submitting the responsive software agent to an information query generated by the second data processing system; and reacting or responding to the information query by the software agent based on the sub-set of sensitive information. The responsive software agent is advantageoulsy generted in the first data processing system and transferred to the second data processing system to locally respond to the queries.