Patent ID: 8347102

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: an encrypting unit configured to encrypt image data with a password; a transmitting unit configured to transmit image data encrypted by the encrypting unit to a transmission destination; a history storage unit configured to store the password and transmission history of encrypted image data, wherein the transmission history corresponds to the password; a receiving unit configured to receive, from a user, a request for confirming the password; an authenticating unit configured to execute, in response to the receiving unit receiving the request, authentication of the user; a display unit configured to display the password based on the transmission history in response to authentication of the user succeeding, wherein the user uses the displayed password at the transmission destination to decrypt the image data encrypted by the encrypting unit and transmitted by the transmitting unit, and wherein at least the encrypting unit, the receiving unit, and the authenticating unit are implemented by a central processing unit in the image processing apparatus.