Patent ID: 8046572

Claim:
A booting system including a boot target device and a boot source device having a first object and a second object for booting the boot target device, the boot target device and the boot source device being connectable by using at least one interface, the first object and the second object being transferred via boot object transfer paths using at least one of the at least one interface, the booting system comprising: a first transfer module for transferring the first object from the boot source device via a first boot object transfer path using a first interface to the boot target device; an interface enabling module for causing the boot target device to boot the first object to make the at least one interface functional; a transfer path switching module for switching a transfer path to enable at least one boot object transfer path using the interface that has been made functional; a second transfer module for transferring the second object from the boot source device via the at least one boot object transfer path to the boot target device; an object boot up module for causing the boot target device to boot the second object; and an encryption key exchanging module for causing the boot source device and the boot target device to exchange a key used for encryption via the boot object transfer path having a degree of safety higher than a predetermined value when the degree of safety of the boot object transfer path is lower than the predetermined value.