Patent ID: 9569371
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. An operating method of a memory system, the operating method comprising: transmitting an authentication request to a memory device using a memory controller; converting the authentication request to a first address corresponding to a data area using the memory device, wherein the authentication request comprises request to access the data area for processing authentication data that indicate a physical characteristic of the memory device; processing the authentication data that corresponds to the first address and transmitting the authentication data as an authentication response to the authentication request to the memory controller using the memory device; verifying whether the authentication response received from the memory device is an authentication response to the authentication request using the memory controller; and when it is verified that the authentication response is the authentication response to the authentication request, permitting normal access to the memory device, wherein the permitting of the normal access comprises encrypting a second address for the normal access to the memory device using the memory controller, decrypting the encrypted second address using the memory controller, and performing a normal operation on the decrypted second address using the memory device.