Abstract: The present invention provides a personal information management system, a personal information management program and a personal information protecting method capable of storing personal information in consideration of security protection and facilitating utilization of the stored information. A personal information management system for handling personal information has a function of connection to a personal information dispersion management server that provides functions of encrypting personal information by the secret sharing scheme and decrypting the encrypted personal information with an index key for decrypting. The system has a search keyword management database storing the index key for decrypting and a personal information managing apparatus.

Abstract: To prevent information leakage at the time of transferring secret information data stored by using secret sharing scheme to the outside. Data to be transferred to a delivery destination of secret information data is divided into a plurality of data pieces by using the secret sharing scheme, and a part of the data pieces is stored in a portable storage medium by a data delivery source and is delivered to the data delivery destination by means such as a package delivery service. A computer at the data delivery destination accesses a predetermined website to download the other data pieces. A computer at the data delivery destination restores the original secret information data from the data pieces obtained via such two kinds of routes.