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Abstract

An IC card (10) is provided with a file creator (16) for creating a voucher file (hereinafter referred to as 'file'); an access control list setter (17) for setting an access authority to a created file; an authenticator (14) for performing mutual authentication with an authority recipient (authority recipient to which the whole or part of the access authority to the file has been transferred) and for examining authority transfer certificate data presented by the authority recipient; and an operation controller (15) for usually controlling an operation on the file on the basis of the set access authority and for, when the result of the examination of the authority transfer certificate data is normal, controlling the operation on the file by the authority recipient, based on the transfer content of the access authority indicated in the authority transfer certificate data, instead of the set access authority.

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First Claim