Patent ID: 8176331
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, managed by a management center, of securing multimedia data exchanged between a multimedia processing device and a security module, the multimedia processing device receiving an encrypted multimedia data, decrypting the encrypted multimedia data and processing the decrypted multimedia data for display, said multimedia processing device including a personal key, the method comprising: obtaining, by the multimedia processing device from the management center, an identifier of an entity representing a group of multimedia processing devices, calculating, by the management center, a security key formed by a one-way encryption function based on the personal key of the multimedia processing device and the entity identifier, transmitting, by the management center, this security key and the entity identifier to the security module connected to said multimedia processing device, calculating the security key, by the multimedia processing device, using the one-way encryption function based on the personal key of said multimedia processing device and the entity identifier, securing the multimedia data exchanged between the multimedia processing device and the security module using the calculated security key, verifying the identity of the security key in the security module, and in the deciphering and decompression module in which the personal key is initialized, by the encryption with said security key of a message containing at least one part predefined by the security module, and verifying this predefined part after decryption by the deciphering and decompression module, wherein the entity identifier is obtained by the transmission of said identifier by the security module.