There are disclosed a radio communication device and others capable of
generating in a short time a secret key common to a base station and a
mobile station in a radio communication system using the MIMO technique
and starting the encrypted communication at an early stage. In this
device, in ST545, when a channel coincidence judgment unit (105) and a
channel coincidence judgment processing unit (205) respectively judge
that the channel matrix generated by the base station completely
coincides with the channel matrix generated by the mobile station or they
do not coincide completely but they can coincide finally by error
correction of the secret key or the like, according to the judgment
result indicated in the channel coincidence judgment signal generated in
ST540-2, ST545 is followed by ST550. On the other hand, when the channel
matrix generated by the base station does not coincide completely with
the channel matrix generated by the mobile station and they do not
coincide finally even after error correction of the secret key, ST510 is
again executed after ST545.