Patent ID: 7073060

Claim:
A data transmission method comprising: at a data transmitting unit, adapted to select a desired channel of a satellite digital multi-channel broadcast signal, cipher key is generated on the basis of first information shared in secret between the data transmitting unit and a data receiving unit, second information derived from duplication control information of data and third information which is time change information shared between the data transmitting unit and the data receiving unit to cipher data by using the cipher key to transmit transmit data in which control information based on the duplication control information and the time change information is added to the ciphered data; and at the data receiving unit, the control information added and ciphered data sent from the data transmitting unit is received to generate cipher key on the basis of first information shared in secret between the data receiving unit and the data transmitting unit, second information derived from the control information of the received data and third information which is time change information shared between the data receiving unit and the data transmitting unit to decode the received data by using the cipher key.