Patent Grant
8850190
This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201010251996.5 filed on Aug. 12, 2010 before the State Intellectual Property Office of China and entitled “Secret Communication Method and System between Neighboring User Terminals”, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to the field of communication network safety application, and more particularly to a secret communication method and system between neighboring user terminals, user terminal, encryption switching equipment.
A wired local area network is usually a broadcast type network where data transmitted from a node can be received by all the other nodes. Various nodes over the network share a channel, and this brings about great hidden risks of safety to the network. Once an attacker accesses and listens to a network, he can capture all the packets on the network and hence steal essential information.
Local area network (LAN) defined by the current [Chinese] National Standard GB/T 15629.3 (which corresponds to IEEE 802.3 or ISO/IEC 8802-3) does not provide any data secrecy method. In researches carried out in foreign countries, IEEE 802.1AE standard released by IEEE provides data encryption protocol to protect the Ethernet and makes use of hop-by-hop encryption safety measure to realize safe transmission of data between network nodes. However, such hop-by-hop encryption safety measure is only directed to the circumstance in which there is and only an encryption switching equipment between terminal user A and terminal user B, and cannot be applied in the scenario in which packets between terminal user A and terminal user B do not go through any encryption switching equipment, namely secret communication between neighboring user terminals. The protocol itself does not provide any secret communication mechanism between the neighboring user terminals.
As proposed by scholars versed in the art, a shared key could be established between neighboring user terminals via an authentication mechanism. Although such a method makes it possible to realize secret communication between neighboring user terminals without any encryption switching equipment, any two user terminals neighboring to each other establish a shared key by way of authentication in a local area network application, and this undoubtedly increases the network load.
In order to solve the aforementioned technical problem existent in the art, the present invention provides a secret communication method and system between neighboring user terminals, user terminal, encryption switching equipment to solve the technical problem needing to be solved in the prior art in which it is necessary, while a shared key is established, to perform identity authentication between every two neighboring user terminals carrying out secret communication therebetween, thereby aggravating the computational load of the network.
One aspect of the present invention is a secret communication method between neighboring user terminals, comprising: 1) determining a neighboring encryption switching equipment shared by a first user terminal and a second user terminal, wherein the first user terminal and the second user terminal are neighboring user terminals; 2) establishing an inter-station key for communication between the first user terminal and the second user terminal by the neighboring encryption switching equipment; and 3) performing data secret communication between the first user terminal and the second user terminal by using the inter-station key.
Correspondingly, the present invention further provides a secret communication system between neighboring user terminals, which system comprises a first user terminal STA1 and a second user terminal STA2 neighboring to each other, a neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B shared by the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, and an intermediate equipment capable of receiving packets between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2; wherein the first user terminal STA1 transmits a neighboring encryption switching equipment selection requesting packet M1 to the second user terminal STA2; after receiving the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection requesting packet M1 transmitted by the first user terminal STA1, the second user terminal STA2 constructs a neighboring encryption switching equipment selection responding packet M2, and transmits the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection responding packet M2 to the first user terminal STA1; the first user terminal STA1 transmits an inter-station key requesting packet M3 to the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B; after receiving the inter-station key requesting packet M3 transmitted from the first user terminal STA1, the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B generates a random number, takes the random number as an inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, constructs an inter-station key notifying packet M4, and transmits the inter-station key notifying packet M4 to the second user terminal STA2; after receiving the inter-station key notifying packet M4 transmitted from the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B, the second user terminal STA2 decrypts the inter-station key notifying packet M4, obtains the inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, constructs an inter-station key notification responding packet M5, and transmits the inter-station key notification responding packet M5 to the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B; after receiving the inter-station key notification responding packet M5 transmitted from the second user terminal STA2, the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B constructs an inter-station key responding packet M6, and transmits the inter-station key responding packet M6 to the first user terminal STA1; after receiving the inter-station key responding packet M6 transmitted from the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B, the first user terminal STA1 decrypts the inter-station key responding packet M6, and obtains the inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2; the first user terminal and the second user terminal perform data secret communication by using the inter-station key STAKey1-2.
Correspondingly, the present invention further provides a user terminal neighboring to a second user terminal, comprising: a determining module configured to determine a neighboring encryption switching equipment between the user terminal and the second user terminal; an obtaining module configured to obtain from the neighboring encryption switching equipment an inter-station key for communication with the second user terminal; and a communicating unit configured to communicate with the second user terminal by using the inter-station key.
Correspondingly, the present invention further provides an encryption switching equipment neighboring to a first user terminal and a second user terminal, respectively, comprising: a first receiving module configured to receive an inter-station key requesting packet (M3) transmitted from the first user terminal (STA1) for helping to establish an inter-station key between the first user terminal (STA1) and the second user terminal (STA2); a first generating module configured to generate a random number according to the inter-station key requesting packet (M3), take the random number as an inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the first user terminal (STA1) and the second user terminal (STA2), and construct an inter-station key notifying packet (M4), wherein the inter-station key notifying packet (M4) includes identity information of the first user terminal (STA1) and a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-2 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B) and the second user terminal (STA2); a first transmitting module configured to transmit the inter-station key notifying packet (M4) to the second user terminal (STA2); a second receiving module configured to receive an inter-station key notification responding packet (M5) transmitted from the second user terminal (STA2), wherein the inter-station key notification responding packet (M5) includes identity information of the first user terminal (STA1); a second generating module configured to construct an inter-station key responding packet (M6), wherein the inter-station key responding packet (M6) includes identity information of the second user terminal (STA2) and a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-1 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B) and the first user terminal (STA1); and a second transmitting module configured to transmit the inter-station key responding packet (M6) to the first user terminal (STA1).
Advantages of the present invention rest as follows. The present invention provides a secret communication method and system between neighboring user terminals, user terminals and encryption switching equipment. Under a safe network framework, when secret communication is performed between neighboring user terminals, a neighboring switching equipment shared by the neighboring user terminals is used to establish an inter-station key between the neighboring user terminals, whereby it is possible for the neighboring user terminals to directly use this inter-station key to realize secret transmission of data, thereby providing a feasible mechanism for secret communication between the neighboring user terminals. Moreover, secret transmission of data is realized in the method without identity authentication between every two neighboring user terminals needing to perform secret communication, and this reduces network load.
It is defined in the secret communication method, device and system provided by the present invention that any two user terminals be neighboring user terminals to each other when packets between the two user terminals do not go through any encryption switching equipment. Packets between neighboring user terminals will go through one or more hubs or non-encryption switching equipments, and such hubs or non-encryption switching equipments are herein referred to as general intermediate equipments between the neighboring user terminals.
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1) Determining a neighboring encryption switching equipment shared by a first user terminal and a second user terminal, wherein the first user terminal and the second user terminal are neighboring user terminals. Determination of the neighboring encryption switching equipment can be realized by the following steps:
1.1) The first user terminal STA1 transmits a neighboring encryption switching equipment selection requesting packet M1 to the second user terminal STA2; the packet M1 includes a list of information of neighboring encryption switching equipments of the first user terminal STA1;
1.2) After receiving the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection requesting packet M1, the second user terminal STA2 looks up a list of neighboring encryption switching equipments of the second user terminal STA2, selects a neighboring encryption switching equipment shared with the first user terminal STA1, constructs a neighboring encryption switching equipment selection responding packet M2, and transmits it to the first user terminal STA1; the packet M2 includes information of the neighboring encryption switching equipment selected by the second user terminal STA2 and shared with the first user terminal STA1;
1.3) After receiving the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection responding packet M2, the first user terminal STA1 extracts the information of the neighboring encryption switching equipment selected by the second user terminal STA2 and shared with the first user terminal STA1;
During a specific implementation, it is also possible in the aforementioned process 1) for selecting the neighboring encryption switching equipment to realize negotiation of such safety parameter suite as an encryption algorithm used in the secret communication between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, the specific method is as follows: the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection requesting packet M1 constructed by the first user terminal STA1 further includes a field of list of safety parameter suites such as encryption algorithms supported by the first user terminal STA1; correspondingly, the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection responding packet M2 constructed by the second user terminal STA2 further includes a field of safety parameter suite such as an encryption algorithm also supported by the second user terminal STA2 as selected by the second user terminal STA2 from the list of safety parameter suites such as encryption algorithms supported by the first user terminal STA1. In other words, the first user terminal STA1 transmits the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection requesting packet M1 to the second user terminal M2; the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection requesting packet M1 includes a field of list of information of neighboring encryption switching equipments of the first user terminal STA1 and a field of list of encryption algorithm safety parameter suites supported by the first user terminal STA1; after receiving the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection requesting packet M1 transmitted from the first user terminal STA1, the second user terminal STA2 selects a neighboring encryption switching equipment shared with the first user terminal STA1 and an encryption algorithm safety parameter suite supported by both the first and second user terminals according to the field of list of information of neighboring encryption switching equipments of the first user terminal STA1 and the field of list of encryption algorithm safety parameter suites supported by the first user terminal STA1 in the packet, constructs the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection responding packet M2, and transmits the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection responding packet M2 to the first user terminal STA1; the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection responding packet M2 includes information of the neighboring encryption switching equipment selected by the second user terminal STA2 and shared with the first user terminal STA1, and a field of safety parameter suite such as an encryption algorithm also supported by the second user terminal STA2 as selected by the second user terminal STA2 from the list of encryption algorithm safety parameter suites supported by the first user terminal STA1; after receiving the neighboring encryption switching equipment selection responding packet M2 transmitted from the second user terminal STA2, the first user terminal STA1 extracts the information of the neighboring encryption switching equipment selected by the second user terminal STA2 and shared with the first user terminal STA1 and the encryption algorithm safety parameter suite supported by both and selected by the second user terminal STA2.
By virtue of the aforementioned method, it is possible to realize negotiation of such safety parameter suite as the encryption algorithm used in the secret communication between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, and thereafter a safety parameter suite such as the encryption algorithm determined by the negotiation can be used during the data secret communication stage after an inter-station key has been established between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2.
2) Establishing, by the neighboring encryption switching equipment, an inter-station key used for performing communication between the first user terminal and the second user terminal, i.e. a process for establishing an inter-station key.
This step is explained with an example in which the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2 select the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B through the 1) process for selecting a neighboring encryption switching equipment. The process for establishing an inter-station key can be realized by the following steps:
2.1) The first user terminal STA1 transmits an inter-station key requesting packet M3 to a neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B for requesting to help to establish an inter-station key between first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2; the packet M3 includes identity information of the second user terminal STA2.
2.2) After receiving the inter-station key requesting packet M3, the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B generates a random number as an inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, constructs an inter-station key notifying packet M4 and transmits it to the second user terminal STA2; the packet M4 includes identity information of the first user terminal STA1 and a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-2 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B and the second user terminal STA2.
2.3) After receiving the inter-station key notifying packet M4, the second user terminal STA2 decrypts the field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 by using the key KEYB-2 between the second user terminal STA2 and the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B to obtain STAKey1-2 information, namely to obtain the inter-station key between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, and thereafter constructs an inter-station key notification responding packet M5 and transmits it to the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B.
2.4) After receiving the inter-station key notification responding packet M5, the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B learns that the second user terminal STA2 has received inter-station key information between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, constructs an inter-station key responding packet M6 and transmits it to the first user terminal STA1; the packet M6 includes identity information of the second user terminal STA2 and a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-1 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B and the first user terminal STA1.
2.5) After receiving the inter-station key responding packet M6, the first user terminal STA1 decrypts the field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 by using the key KEYB-1 between the first user terminal STA1 and the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B to obtain STAKey1-2 information, namely to obtain the inter-station key between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2.
In a specific implementation, in order for each packet to guarantee the integrity of packet message during the aforementioned process 2) for establishing an inter-station key, it is possible to carry in the packet a field of message integrity verification code MIC, which may be a hash value obtained by hash function calculation of other fields than the field of MIC in the packet using a key shared between the constructing party of the packet and the receiving party of the packet. Correspondingly, after receiving the packet, the receiving party firstly verifies whether the MIC is correct, performs the aforementioned message processing process if it is correct, and otherwise discards the packet, the process specifically comprises:
The first user terminal STA1 transmits the inter-station key requesting packet M3 to the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B for requesting to help to establish an inter-station key between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2; the inter-station key requesting packet M3 includes identity information of the second user terminal STA2 and a field of message integrity verification code MIC1, which is a hash value obtained by hash function calculation of other fields than the field of MIC1 in the packet using the shared key KEYB-1 between the first user terminal STA1 and the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B by the first user terminal STA1.
After receiving the inter-station key requesting packet M3 transmitted from the first user terminal STA1, the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B verifies whether the field of message integrity verification code MIC1 is correct, discards the packet if it is not correct, generates a random number if it is correct, takes the random number as an inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, constructs an inter-station key notifying packet M4, and transmits the inter-station key notifying packet M4 to the second user terminal STA2; the inter-station key notifying packet M4 includes identity information of the first user terminal STA1, a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-2 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B and the second user terminal STA2, and a field of message integrity verification code MIC2; the field of message integrity verification code MIC2 is a hash value obtained by hash function calculation of other fields than the field of MIC2 in the packet using the shared key KEYB-2 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B and the second user terminal STA2 by the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B.
After receiving the inter-station key notifying packet M4 transmitted from the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B, the second user terminal STA2 verifies whether the field of message integrity verification code MIC2 is correct, and discards the packet if it is not correct; if it is correct, the second user terminal STA2 decrypts the field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 by using the key KEYB-2 between the second user terminal STA2 and the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B to obtain STAKey1-2 information, obtains the inter-station key between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, then constructs an inter-station key notification responding packet M5, and transmits the inter-station key notification responding packet M5 to the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B; the inter-station key notification responding packet M5 includes identity information of the first user terminal STA1 and a field of message integrity verification code MIC3; the field of message integrity verification code MIC3 is a hash value obtained by hash function calculation of other fields than the field of MIC3 in the packet using the shared key KEYB-2 between the second user terminal STA2 and the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B by the second user terminal STA2.
After receiving the inter-station key notification responding packet M5 transmitted from the second user terminal STA2, the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B verifies whether the field of message integrity verification code MIC3 is correct, and discards the packet if it is not correct; if it is correct, the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B learns that the second user terminal STA2 has received inter-station key information between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, constructs an inter-station key responding packet M6, and transmits the inter-station key responding packet M6 to the first user terminal STA1; the inter-station key responding packet M6 includes identity information of the second user terminal STA2, a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-1 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B and the first user terminal STA1, and a field of message integrity verification code MIC4; the field of message integrity verification code MIC4 is a hash value obtained by hash function calculation of other fields than the field of MIC4 in the packet using the shared key KEYB-1 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B and the first user terminal STA1 by the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B.
After receiving the inter-station key responding packet M6 transmitted from the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B, the first user terminal STA1 verifies whether the field of message integrity verification code MIC4 is correct, and discards the packet if it is not correct; if it is correct, the first user terminal STA1 decrypts the field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 by using the key KEYB-1 between the first user terminal STA1 and the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B to obtain STAKey1-2 information, and obtains the inter-station key between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2.
In a specific implementation, it is also possible in the aforementioned process 2) for establishing an inter-station key to realize negotiation of such safety parameter suite as an encryption algorithm used in the secret communication between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, the specific method is as follows: the inter-station key requesting packet M3 constructed by the first user terminal STA1 further includes a field of list of safety parameter suites such as encryption algorithms supported by the first user terminal STA1; correspondingly, the inter-station key notifying packet M4 constructed by the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B further includes a field of list of safety parameter suites such as encryption algorithms supported by the first user terminal STA1; the inter-station key notification responding packet M5 constructed by the second user terminal STA2 further includes a field of safety parameter suite such as an encryption algorithm also supported by the second user terminal STA2 as selected by the second user terminal STA2 from the list of safety parameter suites such as encryption algorithms supported by the first user terminal STA1; the inter-station key notification responding packet M5 constructed by the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B further includes a field of safety parameter suite such as an encryption algorithm selected by the second user terminal STA2. By the aforementioned method, it is possible to realize negotiation of such safety parameter suite as the encryption algorithm used in the secret communication between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, and thereafter a safety parameter suite such as the encryption algorithm determined by the negotiation can be used during the data secret communication stage after an inter-station key has been established between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2. The process specifically comprises the following steps:
The first user terminal STA1 transmits the inter-station key requesting packet M3 to the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B for requesting to help to establish an inter-station key between the first user terminal STA2 and the second user terminal STA2; the inter-station key requesting packet M3 includes identity information of the second user terminal STA2, the field of message integrity verification code MIC1, and a field of list of encryption algorithm safety parameter suites supported by the first user terminal STA1; the field of message integrity verification code MIC1 is a hash value obtained by hash function calculation of other fields than the field of MIC1 in the packet using the shared key KEYB-1 between the first user terminal STA1 and the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B by the first user terminal STA1;
After receiving the inter-station key requesting packet M3 transmitted from the first user terminal STA1, the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B verifies whether the field of message integrity verification code MIC is correct, discards the packet if it is not correct, generates a random number if it is correct, takes the random number as an inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, constructs an inter-station key notifying packet M4, and transmits the inter-station key notifying packet M4 to the second user terminal STA2; the inter-station key notifying packet M4 includes identity information of the first user terminal STA1, a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-2 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B and the second user terminal STA2, a field of message integrity verification code MIC2, and a field of list of encryption algorithm safety parameter suites supported by the first user terminal STA1; the field of message integrity verification code MIC2 is a hash value obtained by hash function calculation of other fields than the field of MIC2 in the packet using the shared key KEYB-2 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B and the second user terminal STA2 by the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B;
After receiving the inter-station key notifying packet M4 transmitted from the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B, the second user terminal STA2 verifies whether the field of message integrity verification code MIC2 is correct, and discards the packet if it is not correct; if it is correct, the second user terminal STA2 decrypts the field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 by using the key KEYB-2 between the second user terminal STA2 and the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B to obtain STAKey1-2 information, obtains the inter-station key between the second user terminal STA2 and the first user terminal STA1, constructs an inter-station key notification responding packet M5, and transmits the inter-station key notification responding packet M5 to the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B; the inter-station key notification responding packet M5 includes identity information of the first user terminal STA1, a field of encryption algorithm safety parameter suite also supported by the second user terminal STA2 as selected by the second user terminal STA2 from the list of encryption algorithm safety parameter suites supported by the first user terminal STA1, and a field of message integrity verification code MIC3; the field of message integrity verification code MIC3 is a hash value obtained by hash function calculation of other fields than the field of MIC3 in the packet using the shared key KEYB-2 between the second user terminal STA2 and the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B by the second user terminal STA2;
After receiving the inter-station key notification responding packet M5 transmitted from the second user terminal STA2, the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B verifies whether the field of message integrity verification code MIC3 is correct, and discards the packet if it is not correct; if it is correct, the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B learns that the second user terminal STA2 has received inter-station key information between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2, constructs an inter-station key responding packet M6, and transmits the inter-station key responding packet M6 to the first user terminal STA1; the inter-station key responding packet M6 includes identity information of the second user terminal STA2, a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-1 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B and the first user terminal STA1, a field of message integrity verification code MIC, a field of encryption algorithm safety parameter suite selected by the second user terminal STA2, and a field of message integrity verification code MIC4; the field of message integrity verification code MIC4 is a hash value obtained by hash function calculation of other fields than the field of MIC4 in the packet using the shared key KEYB-1 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B and the first user terminal STA1 by the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B;
After receiving the inter-station key responding packet M6 transmitted from the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B, the first user terminal STA1 verifies whether the field of message integrity verification code MIC4 is correct, and discards the packet if it is not correct; if it is correct, the first user terminal STA1 decrypts the field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 to obtain STAKey1-2 by using the key KEYB-1 between the first user terminal STA1 and the neighboring encryption switching equipment ESW-B information; the STAKey1-2 is the inter-station key between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2;
3) Performing data secret communication between the first user terminal and the second user terminal by using the inter-station key, i.e. the first user terminal and the second user terminal use the inter-station key to perform data secret communication;
After the inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2 has been established in the aforementioned process 2) for establishing an inter-station key, it is possible for the first user terminal STA1 and the second user terminal STA2 to perform data secret communication by using this inter-station key. Data transmitted from the first user terminal STA1 to the second user terminal STA2 is transmitted in encryption by the first user terminal STA1 by using the STAKey1-2, and after receiving the encrypted data, the second user terminal STA2 decrypts the data by using the STAKey1-2; correspondingly, data transmitted from the second user terminal STA2 to the first user terminal STA1 is transmitted in encryption by the second user terminal STA2 by using the STAKey1-2, and after receiving the encrypted data, the first user terminal STA1 decrypts the data by using the STAKey1-2.
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Preferably, there is one or more general intermediate equipments in a secret communication system between neighboring user terminals.
With respect to process for realizing the various equipments in the system, see for details the foregoing process for realizing the corresponding steps in the aforementioned method, and no repetition will be made in this context.
Correspondingly, the present invention further provides a user terminal, see
The determining module is configured to determine a neighboring encryption switching equipment between the user terminal and the second user terminal. The obtaining module is configured to obtain from the neighboring encryption switching equipment an inter-station key for communication with the second user terminal. The communicating unit is configured to communicate with the second user terminal by using the inter-station key.
Preferably, the obtaining module comprises a transmitting sub-module, a receiving sub-module and a decrypting sub-module, wherein the transmitting sub-module is configured to transmit an inter-station key requesting packet (M3) to the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B) for requesting to help to establish an inter-station key between the first user terminal (STA1) and the second user terminal (STA2), the inter-station key requesting packet (M3) includes identity information of the second user terminal (STA2); the receiving sub-module is configured to receive an inter-station key responding packet (M6) fed back from the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B), the inter-station key responding packet (M6) includes identity information of the second user terminal (STA2) and a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-1 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B) and the user terminal (STA1); the decrypting sub-module is configured to decrypt the field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 by using the key KEYB-1 between the user terminal (STA1) and the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B), and obtaining an inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the user terminal (STA1) and the second user terminal (STA2).
Preferably, the user terminal further comprises a receiving module, a decrypting module, a constructing module, and a transmitting module, wherein the receiving module is configured to receive an inter-station key notifying packet (M4) transmitted from the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B), the inter-station key notifying packet (M4) includes identity information of the user terminal (STA1) and a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-2 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B) and the second user terminal (STA2); the decrypting module is configured to decrypt the field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 by using the key KEYB-2 between the second user terminal (STA2) and the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B), and obtain an inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the second user terminal (STA2) and the user terminal (STA1); the constructing module is configured to construct an inter-station key notification responding packet (M5), the inter-station key notification responding packet (M5) includes identity information of the first user terminal (STA1); the transmitting module is configured to transmit the inter-station key notification responding packet (M5) to the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B).
With respect to the functions and effects of the various modules in the user terminal, see the corresponding realizing process in the aforementioned method for details, and no repetition will be made in this context.
Correspondingly, the present invention further provides an encryption switching equipment neighboring to a first user terminal and a second user terminal respectively, and comprising a first receiving module, a first generating module, a first transmitting unit, a second receiving module, a second generating module and a second transmitting unit, wherein the first receiving module is configured to receive an inter-station key requesting packet (M3) transmitted from the first user terminal (STA1) for requesting to help to establish an inter-station key between the first user terminal (STA1) and the second user terminal (STA2); the first generating module is configured to generate a random number according to the inter-station key requesting packet (M3), take the random number as an inter-station key STAKey1-2 between the first user terminal (STA1) and the second user terminal (STA2), and construct an inter-station key notifying packet (M4), the inter-station key notifying packet (M4) includes identity information of the first user terminal (STA1) and a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-2 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B) and the second user terminal (STA2); the first transmitting module is configured to transmit the inter-station key notifying packet (M4) to the second user terminal (STA2); the second receiving module is configured to receive an inter-station key notification responding packet (M5) transmitted from the second user terminal (STA2), the inter-station key notification responding packet (M5) includes identity information of the first user terminal (STA1); the second generating module is configured to construct an inter-station key responding packet (M6), the inter-station key responding packet (M6) includes identity information of the second user terminal (STA2) and a field of encrypted information of STAKey1-2 protected by a shared key KEYB-1 between the neighboring encryption switching equipment (ESW-B) and the first user terminal (STA1); the second transmitting module is configured to transmit the inter-station key responding packet (M6) to the first user terminal (STA1).
With respect to the functions and effects of the various modules in the encryption switching equipment, see the corresponding realizing process in the aforementioned method for details, and no repetition will be made in this context.
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