Patent ID: 7024563
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: G06Q,G06T,G07F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A personal identity authenticating system comprising: an authentication support station at which secret key and public key pairs are managed such that each pair is mapped to the identifier of a registrant or registrar to which the pair belongs; a registry terminal which encrypts image data and identity data and writes encrypted data onto a recording medium; and a personal identity authenticating terminal which reads the encrypted data from said recording medium, decrypts said image data and said identity data, and checks the decrypted data for consistency of its contents, wherein: said registry terminal receives and stores the input of image data generated by capturing a part of the body of the registrant, and the input of the registrant's identity data, encrypts the identity data with the registrant's secret key and with the registrar's secret key respectively, and writes the image data and encrypted identity data onto said recording medium of the registrant, said personal identity authenticating terminal decrypts the double encrypted data respectively with the registrant's and registrar's public keys which are obtained from said authentication support station by specifying either the registrant or registrar identifier and performs matching between both identity data decrypted with each public keys, and moreover presents a image from said image data and accepts the input of confirmation.