US Patent Issued on July 28 for "Password hardening for elliptic curve integrated encryption schemes" (Israeli, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,602, issued on July 28.

"Password hardening for elliptic curve integrated encryption schemes" was invented by Arash Afshar (Calgary, Canada), Yehuda Lindell (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Guy Pe'er (Talmey Yechiel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. The described techniques may enable a user to password harden a ciphertext including a first elliptic curve point and an encrypted message such that an unauthorized user may query an enclave multiple times to decrypt the message. For example, the user may generate a second elliptic curve point using a user-provided password an...