Patent ID: 7984499
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: G11B,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing device, comprising: a certificate storage unit configure to store authorized device certificates; an authentication execution unit configured to execute device authentication processing with a recording medium access drive using an authorized device certificate stored in the certificate storage unit and an authorized device certificate stored in the recording medium access drive, when a recording medium is inserted into the recording medium access drive; a count-value storage unit configured to count a number of times of authentication executed via said authentication execution unit and store the number of times of authentication as a count value; and an updating execution unit configured to execute updating processing to obtain a new authorized device certificate, wherein said authentication execution unit is further configured to execute the device authentication processing with the recording medium access drive, under a condition that the count value of the number of times of authentication has not reached a predetermined upper value of the number of times of authentication, and said updating execution unit is further configured to execute the updating processing, under a condition that the count value of the number of times of authentication has reached the predetermined upper value of the number of times of authentication.