ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM AND CONTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT METHOD USED THEREFOR

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic bulletin board system capable of preventing an anonymous contribution without making a member take the risk of one-sidedly trusting a specified person.;SOLUTION: At the time of judging whether or not a contribution management device 15 is to receive a contribution, it is judged by communicating the password information of a contributor among the password collation devices 31 of the other members with each other without making a host computer 1 judge it alone. The password information which is the core of authentication is provided not in a specified computer but in all client computers 3 and all the client computers 3 participate in the authentication in equal relations.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO