Patent ID: 8631234
Filing Date: 2014-01-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus comprising: a plurality of connection-source terminating units, each constituting an independent communication path coupled to a corresponding one of a plurality of connection-destination terminating units provided for a connection-destination apparatus; and an establishing unit that establishes encryption information including first information used for encryption processing on communication performed via a plurality of the independent communication paths established between the plurality of connection-source terminating units and the plurality of connection-destination terminating units, wherein the first information is used in common to all the plurality of the independent communication paths; and when transmitting first and second packets using respective first and second paths included in the plurality of independent communication paths, the encryption processing is performed on the first and second packets using the same first information, and the first and second packets on which the encryption processing has been performed using the first information are transmitted concurrently via the first and second paths between the communication apparatus and the connection-destination apparatus.