TWI694348B - System for export and import certificate through multimedia file and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A system for export and import a certificate through a multimedia file and a method thereof are provided. By adding a certificate in a multimedia file according to a format of the multimedia file by a first program, exporting the multimedia file including the certificate by the first program, obtaining the certificate from the exported multimedia file by a second program, and importing the obtained certificate by the second program, the system and the method can export certificate through multimedia file in operation system where saving certificate is not allowed, and can achieve the effect of using the same certificate for different program for arbitrarily domain in operation system where saving certificate is not allowed.

Description

System and method for exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files

A system and method for certificate export and import, in particular to a system and method for exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files.

Electronic vouchers, also known as digital vouchers, are an identification mechanism used in computer systems. An electronic certificate is a computer file or a group of files, which records the owner's identification information and a set of public passwords. The owner of the electronic certificate can authenticate himself to the computer system, so as to access or use a specific computer service.

In general, you can use a browser or a specific application to connect to the certificate server to apply for a certificate, and after applying for a certificate, the requested certificate can be exported from the browser or application that applied for the certificate, and the The exported certificate is imported into other browsers or applications, so that other browsers or applications can use the same certificate.

However, in some operating systems, users are only allowed to operate on files in specific formats, such as multimedia files, but they are not allowed to access the certificate file. That is to say, in such operating systems, when the user When exporting a certificate, either the operating system refuses to store it, or the stored certificate cannot be found after the certificate is stored, which prevents the user from using the same certificate in other browsers or applications. Therefore, the user needs to separately Operating different browsers or applications to apply for certificates results in each browser or application having one or more certificates that need to be managed, causing troubles in certificate management.

In summary, it can be seen that in the prior art, some operating systems cannot store the exported certificate file, which causes the user to apply for a certificate for the same domain on each browser. Therefore, it is necessary to propose improved technical means to solve This problem.

In view of the problem in the prior art that the user needs to apply for a certificate separately from each browser in an operating system that does not allow storing a certificate file, the present invention discloses a system and method for exporting and importing a certificate through a multimedia file, in which:

The system for exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files disclosed by the present invention includes at least: a first program, including a local storage (Local Storage), for reading the target certificate from the local storage and obtaining multimedia files, And the format used to convert the target certificate to the certificate export format, and the target certificate is added to the multimedia file according to the file format of the multimedia file, and the multimedia file is exported; the second program is used to load the multimedia file and based on the multimedia file The file format reads the target certificate and imports the target certificate into the second program.

The method for exporting and importing a certificate through a multimedia file disclosed in the present invention includes the following steps: the first program reads the target certificate from the local storage area; the first program obtains the multimedia file; and the first program converts the format of the target certificate Export format for the certificate, and add the target certificate to the multimedia file according to the file format of the multimedia file; the first program exports the multimedia file; the second program loads the multimedia file; the second program reads the target certificate according to the file format of the multimedia file And import the target certificate into the second program.

The system and method disclosed by the present invention are as above. The difference between the present invention and the prior art is that the present invention adds the target certificate to the multimedia file according to the file format of the multimedia file through the first program, and after exporting the multimedia file containing the target certificate, The second program extracts the target certificate from the exported multimedia file and imports it to solve the problems of the previous technology, and can achieve the technical effect of enabling different programs to use the same certificate in any domain.

The following will describe the features and implementations of the present invention in detail with reference to the drawings and examples. The content is sufficient for any person skilled in the relevant arts to easily fully understand and implement the technical means applied to solve the technical problems of the present invention and implement accordingly, thereby realizing The achievable effect of the invention.

The invention is applied to a certificate that only allows the application that applied for the certificate to be used in one domain, even if other different applications are in the same domain or the same application cannot be used in different domains Environment. Through the invention, the application can export the target certificate in the form of a multimedia file, so that the same application can import the target certificate included in the multimedia file and use it in different domains, or different applications can include The target certificate in the multimedia file is imported and used in the same or different domains.

Among them, the application program mentioned in the present invention may be a web browsing program or various programs embedded in web browsing components, but the present invention is not limited to this; the multimedia file mentioned in the present invention usually refers to a picture file, but The invention is not limited to it, and may also be audio files, audio-visual files, etc.

The following describes the system operation of the present invention with the system architecture diagram of exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files according to the "picture 1" of the present invention. As shown in "Figure 1A", the system of the present invention is applied to a computing device 100 including a storage medium 130, and includes a first program 110 and a second program 120.

The computing device mentioned in the present invention includes but is not limited to one or more processors, one or more memory modules, and a bus that connects different components (including memory modules and processors). Through the included multiple components, the computing device can load and execute the operating system, so that the operating system runs on the computing device.

The bus of the computing device mentioned in the present invention may include one or more types, for example, including a data bus, an address bus, a control bus, and an extended function bus ( Expansion bus), and/or local bus (local bus) and other types of bus. Computing equipment buses include but are not limited to parallel industrial standard architecture (ISA) buses, peripheral component interconnect (PCI) buses, video electronics standards association (VESA) local buses, and serial universal serial buses (USB), fast peripheral component interconnect (PCI-E) bus, etc.

The processor of the computing device mentioned in the present invention is coupled to the bus. The processor includes a register group or register space. The register group or register space can be completely set on the processing wafer, or all or part of it can be set outside the processing wafer and connected via a dedicated electrical connection. And/or coupled to the processor via a bus. The processor may be a processing unit, a microprocessor, or any suitable processing element. If the computing device is a multi-processor device, that is, the computing device includes multiple processors, the processors included in the computing device are all the same or similar, and are coupled and communicated through the bus.

The processor of the computing device 100 may be coupled to the chipset or electrically connected to the chipset through a bus. The chipset is composed of one or more integrated circuits (ICs), including a memory controller and peripheral I/O controller, that is, the memory controller and peripheral I/O controller can be included in Within an integrated circuit, two or more integrated circuits can also be used. The chipset usually provides I/O and memory management functions, and provides multiple general-purpose and/or dedicated registers, timers, etc. Among them, the above-mentioned general-purpose and/or dedicated registers and timers can be coupled or One or more processors electrically connected to the chipset are accessed or used.

The processor of the computing device 100 can also access data in the memory module and the mass storage area installed on the computing device through the memory controller. The above memory module includes any type of volatile memory (volatile memory) and/or non-volatile (non-volatile memory, NVRAM) memory, such as static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access Memory (DRAM), flash memory (Flash), read-only memory (ROM), etc. The above-mentioned mass storage area may include any type of storage device or storage medium, for example, hard disk drive, optical disc, tape drive, flash drive (flash memory), solid state drive (Solid State Disk, SSD), or any Other storage devices, etc. In other words, the memory controller can access data in static random access memory, dynamic random access memory, flash memory, hard drives, and solid state drives.

The processor of the computing device can also communicate with peripheral devices such as peripheral output devices, peripheral input devices, communication interfaces, and GPS receivers through peripheral I/O busses through peripheral I/O controllers. The peripheral input device can be any type of input device, such as a keyboard, mouse, trackball, trackpad, joystick, etc. The peripheral output device can be any type of output device, such as a display, printer, etc., peripheral input device It can also be the same device as the peripheral output device, such as a touch screen. The communication interface may include a wireless communication interface and/or a wired communication interface. The wireless communication interface may include a wireless communication network supporting Wi-Fi, Zigbee, etc., Bluetooth, infrared, near field communication (NFC), 3G/4G/5G and other mobile communication networks The interface of wireless communication or other wireless data transmission protocol, wired communication interface can be Ethernet equipment, asynchronous transmission mode (ATM) equipment, DSL modem, cable modem, etc. The processor can periodically poll various peripheral devices and interfaces so that the computing device can input and output data, and can also communicate with another computing device having the components described above.

The first program 110 is executed by the processor of the computing device 100, can apply for the target certificate, and can export the applied target certificate to the storage medium 130 in the form of a multimedia file for storage. Among them, the first program 110 further includes a local storage area (Local Storage) 111, a format conversion module 113, a file acquisition module 115, a file processing module 116, and a file export module 117.

The local storage area 111 is responsible for storing the target certificate. In most embodiments, the local storage area 111 is the storage area defined by the first program 110 for the domain using the target certificate according to the HTML 5 specification, but the invention is not limited thereto.

The format conversion module 113 is responsible for loading the target certificate from the local storage area 111 and converting the format of the target certificate to the certificate export format. Generally speaking, the certificate export format converted by the format conversion module 113 is the conventional PFX format, but the invention is not limited to this.

If two or more certificates are stored in the local storage area, the format conversion module 113 may provide to select one of the certificates as the target certificate.

The file obtaining module 115 is responsible for obtaining multimedia files. The file obtaining module 115 can provide a multimedia file by selecting one of all multimedia files stored in the storage medium 130, so as to obtain the selected multimedia file; the file obtaining module 115 can also provide setting file generation parameters, and according to the set file Generate parameters to generate multimedia files. Among them, the file generation module 115 provides set file generation parameters that can include the format of multimedia files, such as: JPEG format for image files, MP3 format for sound files, or MP4 format for audio and video files, etc. File generation parameters can also be included in Messages that can be displayed when playing or displaying multimedia files, such as text, identification codes, personal logos, trademarks, etc. The file generation parameters can also include information used as background when playing or displaying multimedia files, such as: background color Or the data recorded in the base map, two-dimensional barcode or QR code, etc., but the file generation parameters mentioned in the present invention are not limited to the above, and any data related to the multimedia file generated by the file acquisition module 115 can be used as the present invention The mentioned file generation parameters.

The file processing module 116 is responsible for adding the target certificate after format conversion by the format conversion module 113 to the multimedia file obtained by the file obtaining module 115 according to the file format of the multimedia file obtained by the file obtaining module 115, thereby generating Multimedia file of target certificate. As shown in "Picture 2", the multimedia file 200 generated by the file processing module 116 includes the original content 210 and the additional content 220 including the target certificate 222. The "Picture 2" is merely an illustration and is not used to limit the additional The relative relationship between the content 220 and the original content 210 and/or the relative position of the target certificate 222 in the additional content 220.

For example, if the multimedia file is a picture file in JPEG format, the file processing module 116 can generate an exchangeable image file format (EXIF, Exchangeable Image file Format) including the target certificate after format conversion, and the generated EXIF Attached to the image file in JPEG format; if the multimedia file is a sound file in MP3 format, the file processing module 116 can generate an ID3 tag containing the target certificate after format conversion, and add the generated ID3 tag to the MP3 format sound The end of the file.

The file export module 117 is responsible for exporting the multimedia file generated by the file processing module 116 so that the multimedia file is stored in the storage medium 130. In some embodiments, the file export module 117 is restricted by the operating system installed by the first program 110, and can only export multimedia files to a predetermined location of the system corresponding to the file format of the media file, and cannot be arbitrarily specified The storage location of the multimedia file is exported, but the invention is not limited to this.

The second program 120 is executed by the processor of the computing device 100, and the multimedia file exported by the first program 110 can be read from the storage medium 130, and the target certificate included in the multimedia file can be imported and used. The second program 120 further includes a certificate reading module 121, a certificate importing module 123, and a database 124.

The certificate reading module 121 is responsible for obtaining the multimedia file containing the target certificate from the storage medium 130. In some embodiments, the certificate reading module 121 may provide a storage location for selecting a multimedia file, and provide for selecting a multimedia file from all files contained in the storage location or files belonging to the multimedia file, so as to obtain the selected multimedia file.

In another part of the embodiment, if the storage location of the multimedia file is limited by the operating system where the first program 110 is installed, the certificate reading module 121 of the first program 110 can provide multimedia selection from a predetermined location of the system File and obtain the selected multimedia file, the certificate reading module 121 can also directly search and obtain the multimedia file containing the target certificate in a predetermined location of the system. Among them, the certificate reading module 121 can check the content of each multimedia file in the predetermined position of the system one by one to determine whether the multimedia file contains the target certificate, or it can first filter the multimedia files according to the size of the multimedia file and then check the selected multimedia files Whether the target certificate is included. In addition, if the certificate reading module 121 searches for two or more multimedia files, the certificate reading module 121 can provide selection of the multimedia file to be exported.

The certificate reading module 121 is also responsible for reading the target certificate from the obtained multimedia file according to the file format of the obtained multimedia file. For example, the certificate reading module 121 can read the target certificate from the EXIF of the JPEG file according to the file format of the JPEG file; the certificate reading module 121 can also read from the ID3 tag of the MP3 file according to the file format of the MP3 file The target certificate is issued, but the invention is not limited to this.

The certificate import module 123 is responsible for importing the target certificate read by the certificate reading module 121, that is, storing the target certificate read by the certificate reading module 121 in the database 124.

In addition, as shown in "Figure 1B", the first program 110 and the second program 120 of the present invention may also be executed on different computing devices, respectively. In "Figure 1B", the operation process of the first program 110 and the second program 120 is roughly similar to that in "Figure 1A", the difference is that the first program 110 executed by the processor of the first computing device 100a will After the multimedia file containing the target certificate is stored in the storage medium 130a of the first computing device 100a, the multimedia file containing the target certificate can be copied from the first computing device 100a to the second through the network or a mobile storage device (not shown) The computing device 100b and the second program 120 executed by the second computing device 100b can obtain the multimedia file containing the target certificate from the storage medium 130b of the second computing device 100b and import the target certificate.

Next, an embodiment is used to explain the operation system and method of the present invention, and please refer to the "Figure 3" flowchart of the method for exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files proposed by the present invention. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the present invention is applied to a mobile device, where the first program 110 is a web browsing program and the second program 120 is a certificate management program, but the present invention is not limited to this.

After the user uses the first program 110 to apply for the target certificate, the user can operate the first program 110 to execute the export of the target certificate. For example, the user can execute the export function provided by the first program 110, or can open a specific webpage so that The webpage program in the opened specific webpage triggers the export function, so that the format conversion module 113 of the first program 110 can read the target certificate from the local storage area 111 of the first program 110 (step 310), and The file acquisition module 115 of a program 110 can acquire multimedia files (step 320). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the file acquisition module 115 can generate and acquire multimedia files according to preset file generation parameters. For example, the file acquisition module 115 can generate user identification data including a part of the drawing and the trademark of the certificate use unit Picture file with name.

In practice, the format conversion module 113 of the first program 110 reads the target certificate from the local storage area 111 of the first program 110 (step 310) and the file acquisition module 115 of the first program 110 obtains the multimedia file (step 320) ) There is no order relationship, that is to say, in the present invention, the file acquisition module 115 can also acquire multimedia files (step 320), and the format conversion module 113 then reads the target certificate from the local storage area 111 (Step 310).

The format conversion module 113 of the first program 110 reads the target certificate from the local storage area 111 of the first program 110 (step 310), and the file acquisition module 115 of the first program 110 obtains the multimedia file (step 320) After that, the file processing module 116 of the first program 110 can add the target certificate generated by the format conversion module 113 to the multimedia file obtained by the file obtaining module 115 according to the file format of the multimedia file obtained by the file obtaining module 115 (Step 330). In this embodiment, it is assumed that the file processing module 116 generates the EXIF of the author field including the target certificate generated by the format conversion module 113, and adds the generated EXIF to the image file generated by the file acquisition module 115 to generate The attached EXIF contains the image file of the target certificate.

After the file processing module 116 of the first program 110 generates a multimedia file containing the target certificate, the file export module 117 of the first program 110 can export the multimedia file generated by the file processing module 116 (step 340), so that The multimedia file generated by the file processing module 116 is stored in the storage medium 130. In this embodiment, if the operating system where the first program 110 is installed restricts that multimedia files can only be stored in a predetermined location of the system, the file export module 117 can directly store the multimedia file in a predetermined location of the system designated by the operating system; If the operating system does not limit the storage location of the multimedia file, the first program 110 can store the multimedia file to the default storage location, or provide the user to select the storage location.

After the file export module 117 of the first program 110 saves the multimedia file containing the target certificate to the storage medium 130, the user can execute the certificate import function provided by the second program 120, or can open a specific web page to be opened The web program in the specific web page triggers the second program 120 to perform the certificate import function.

When the second program executes the certificate import function, the certificate reading module 121 of the second program 120 can obtain the multimedia file exported by the file export module 117 of the first program 110 from the storage medium 130 (step 350). In this embodiment, if the operating system where the second program 120 is installed does not limit the storage location of the multimedia file, the certificate reading module 121 can provide the user to select the multimedia file stored in the storage medium 130 and obtain the selected Multimedia files; and if the operating system where the first program 110 is installed restricts that multimedia files can only be stored in a predetermined location of the system, the certificate reading module 121 can first calculate based on the predetermined image resolution, image size, and content of the target certificate The range of the file size of the image file, and all multimedia files in the predetermined position of the system are filtered out the multimedia files whose file size falls within the range of the calculated file size, and then checked according to the file format of the selected multimedia file Whether the EXIF author field of the filtered multimedia file contains the target certificate, so as to obtain the multimedia file containing the target certificate when the filtered multimedia file contains the target certificate.

After the certificate reading module 121 of the second program 120 obtains the multimedia file, the certificate importing module 123 of the second program 120 can use the file format of the multimedia file obtained by the certificate reading module 121 to The target certificate is read from the multimedia file obtained by the group 121, and the read target certificate is imported into the second program 120 (step 360). In this embodiment, the certificate import module 123 may write the target certificate read by the certificate reading module 121 into the database 124, so that the target certificate is imported.

In this way, through the present invention, the certificate can be included in the multimedia file to be exported and imported, so that the certificate applied for a single domain in a specific program can be used by any domain in any program.

To sum up, it can be seen that the difference between the present invention and the prior art is that the first program adds the target certificate to the multimedia file according to the file format of the multimedia file, and after the multimedia file containing the target certificate is exported, the second program The technical means of extracting the target certificate from the exported multimedia file and importing it. This technical method can solve the problem of the prior art. The user needs to apply for each browser in an operating system that does not allow the storage of the certificate file. The problem of certificate, and then achieve the technical effect of allowing different programs to use the same certificate in any domain in an operating system that cannot export the certificate file.

Furthermore, the method of exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files of the present invention can be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software, and can also be implemented in a centralized manner in computer systems or dispersed in different components Decentralized implementation of several interconnected computer systems.

Although the disclosed embodiments of the present invention are as described above, the content described is not intended to directly limit the patent protection scope of the present invention. Anyone who has ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention belongs, without making any departure from the spirit and scope disclosed by the present invention, makes slight modifications to the form and details of the implementation of the present invention, all belong to the patent protection of the present invention range. The scope of patent protection of the present invention shall still be determined by the scope of the attached patent application.

100: computing device 100a: the first computing device 100b: second computing device 110: The first program 111: Local storage area 113: Format conversion module 115: File acquisition module 116: File processing module 117: File export module 120: Second program 121: Certificate reading module 123: Certificate import module 124: Database 130: storage media 130a, 130b: storage media 200: Multimedia files 210: Original content 220: Additional content 222: Target certificate Step 310: The first program reads the target certificate from the local storage area Step 320: The first program obtains multimedia files Step 330: The first program converts the format of the target certificate to the certificate export format, and adds the target certificate to the multimedia file according to the file format of the multimedia file Step 340: The first program exports multimedia files Step 350: The second program loads the multimedia file Step 360: The second program reads the target certificate according to the file format of the multimedia file and imports the target certificate into the second program

FIG. 1A is a system architecture diagram of exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files according to the present invention. FIG. 1B is another system architecture diagram of exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of multimedia files and target certificates according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for exporting and importing a certificate through multimedia files according to the present invention.

Step 310: The first program reads the target certificate from the local storage area

Step 320: The first program obtains multimedia files

Step 330: The first program converts the format of the target certificate to the certificate export format, and adds the target certificate to the multimedia file according to the file format of the multimedia file

Step 340: The first program exports multimedia files

Step 350: The second program loads the multimedia file

Step 360: The second program reads the target certificate according to the file format of the multimedia file and imports the target certificate into the second program

Claims (12)

A method for exporting and importing a certificate through a multimedia file. The method includes at least the following steps: a first program reads a target certificate from the local storage area (Local Storage); the first program obtains a multimedia file; the first A program converts the format of the target certificate into a certificate export format, and adds the target certificate to the multimedia file according to the file format of the multimedia file; the first program exports the multimedia file to a storage medium; a second program Load the multimedia file from the storage medium; and the second program reads the target certificate according to the file format of the multimedia file, and imports the target certificate into the second program. The method of exporting and importing a certificate through a multimedia file as described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the step of obtaining a multimedia file by the first program generates the multimedia file for the first program. The method of exporting and importing a certificate through a multimedia file as described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the step of exporting the multimedia file by the first program is to export the multimedia file to a predetermined location of the system by the first program, And the step of loading the multimedia file by the second program further includes searching the multimedia file by the second program to a predetermined location of the system. The method of exporting and importing a certificate through a multimedia file as described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the step of loading the multimedia file by the second program further includes the second program providing selection of a storage location of the multimedia file, And provide to select the multimedia file in the storage location. The method of exporting and importing a certificate through a multimedia file as described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the step of loading the multimedia file by the second program further includes the second program checking the content of the multimedia file one by one to determine the Whether the multimedia file contains the target certificate, or the first step is to filter out the multimedia file according to the file size and then check whether the filtered multimedia file contains the target certificate. A system for exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files. The system includes at least: a first program including a local storage area for reading a target certificate from the local storage area and obtaining a multimedia file, and The format used to convert the target certificate to a certificate export format, and add the target certificate to the multimedia file according to the file format of the multimedia file, and export the multimedia file to a storage medium; and a second program, use Load the multimedia file from the storage medium, read the target certificate according to the file format of the multimedia file, and import the target certificate into the second program. The system for exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files as described in item 6 of the patent application scope, wherein the first program is to generate the multimedia files and obtain the multimedia files. The system for exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files as described in item 6 of the patent scope, wherein the first program is to export the multimedia file to a predetermined location of the system, and the second program is further used to reserve the system Location search for the multimedia file. The system for exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files as described in item 6 of the patent scope, wherein the second program is further used to provide a selection of a storage location of the multimedia file and selection of the multimedia in the storage location file. The system for exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files as described in item 6 of the patent scope, wherein the second program is further used to check the contents of the multimedia files one by one to determine the multimedia files Whether the case contains the target certificate, or first filter out the multimedia file according to the file size, and then check whether the filtered multimedia file contains the target certificate. A method for exporting and importing a certificate through a multimedia file, the method includes at least the following steps: a first program executed in a first computing device reads a target certificate from a local storage area; the first program obtains a multimedia File; the first program converts the format of the target certificate into a certificate export format, and adds the target certificate to the multimedia file according to the file format of the multimedia file; the first program exports the multimedia file to the first calculation A first storage medium of the device; transfer or copy the multimedia file from the first storage medium to a second storage medium of a second computing device; a second program executed on a second computing device is stored by the second The media is loaded into the multimedia file; and the second program reads the target certificate according to the file format of the multimedia file and imports the target certificate into the second program. A system for exporting and importing certificates through multimedia files, the system at least includes: a first program, executed on a first computing device, including a local storage area for reading a target certificate from the local storage area , And obtain a multimedia file, and convert the format of the target certificate into a certificate export format, and add the target certificate to the multimedia file according to the file format of the multimedia file, and export the multimedia file to the first One of the first storage media of the computing device; and A second program running on a second computing device to load the multimedia file from the second storage medium after the multimedia file is transferred or copied to a second storage medium of a second computing device, and Read the target certificate according to the file format of the multimedia file, and import the target certificate into the second program.

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