Server-Verified Equipment-Certificate Pairing for Replaceable Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing systems fail to maintain safety due to the lack of utilization of unique digital certificate information, leading to potential security vulnerabilities.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system comprising equipment and a server, where the equipment includes replaceable storage components for unique equipment information and digital certificates, and a controller that transmits this information to the server for association, allowing the server to verify and manage the integrity of the information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of repair
If replaceable storage components are used for equipment information and digital certificates, then adaptability and ease of repair are improved, but reliability and security are worsened due to potential mismatch between equipment and certificate information
Solution Approach 1:
The server stores correspondence relationships between equipment information and certificate information, and actively verifies whether transmitted equipment-certificate combinations match the stored relationships. This feedback mechanism detects mismatches caused by storage component replacement and prevents unauthorized access, thereby maintaining security while allowing replaceable components.
Solution Approach 2:
The server pre-stores the correspondence relationships between equipment information and certificate information before any replacement occurs. This preliminary action enables the server to verify the validity of any subsequent equipment-certificate combinations, ensuring that only authorized pairs are recognized even when storage components are replaced.
2Device complexity
If digital certificate information is not utilized, then device complexity is reduced, but security and reliability are worsened due to lack of verification
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary that manages the correspondence relationships between equipment information and certificate information. Instead of requiring complex verification mechanisms within the equipment itself, the server centrally maintains and verifies the matching relationships, simplifying the equipment design while ensuring security through centralized coordination.
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AI summary
Information processing system includes equipment and server that communicates with equipment. Equipment includes first board that is replaceable and configured to store equipment information unique to equipment, second board that is replaceable and configured to store a digital certificate, and second controller that transmits, to server, equipment information and certificate information that is unique to the digital certificate. Server includes server controller that receives equipment information and certificate information that are transmitted from equipment, and server storage that stores equipment information and certificate information that are received by server controller, in association with each other.