Patent ID: 8578446
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An authentication apparatus capable of communicating with a client apparatus capable of transmitting each authentication context received from a plurality of entity devices which generates, based on confidential information, a plurality of authentication contexts each including a processing result of a plurality of authentication subprocesses making up a biometric authentication process, the authentication apparatus comprising: an authentication apparatus confidential information storage device configured to store confidential information identical with or corresponding to the aforementioned confidential information; an authenticator verification device configured to verify an authenticator of each authentication context based on the confidential information in the authentication apparatus confidential information storage device upon receipt, from the client apparatus, of the authentication context, the authentication context including: a performance information extraction device configured to extract, for each authentication context received, the corresponding execution device performance information in the entity device certificate based on the execution device identification information used for generating the authenticator, the corresponding execution device performance information indicating the evaluation item for the performance of the authentication subprocess execution device identified by the execution device identification information and the evaluation result in correspondence with the evaluation item; a performance criteria information storage device configured to store, in advance, performance criteria information indicating the performance to be satisfied by the authentication subprocess execution device, the performance criteria information indicating an authentication policy; and a performance information verification device configured to verify, based on the performance criteria information, the execution device performance information extracted by the performance information extraction device.