MUMBAI, India, March 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617014451 A) filed by Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, on Feb. 10, for 'key management device, key management system, key management method, key management program, and computer-readable storage medium.'

Inventor(s) include Misawa, Yuto.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The purpose of the present invention is to specify a user using a PKCS#11-based HSM. A key management device according to an embodiment comprises: a first acquisition unit that acquires pre-authentication information including a user ID, authentication informa...