CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD

摘要

In a content delivery system, delivery of content and charging the fee of the content are performed and managed in a highly secure and effective fashion. If a content-purchasing request is transmitted from a user device to a shop server, a charging process is performed. A user device authentication server, which manages content delivery, converts an encrypted content key KpDAS(Kc) encrypted using a public key of the user device authentication server (DAS) into an encrypted content key KpDEV(Kc) encrypted using a public key KpDEV of the user device. If the charging process is successfully completed, the shop server transmits, to the user device, the encrypted content key KpDEV(Kc).