US Patent Issued on May 26 for "Server verification via key pinning" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,939, issued on May 26.

"Server verification via key pinning" was invented by Alexander Minerva Nachbaur (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identity management system may support an authentication server. According to techniques described herein, a client device may receive an authentication challenge from the authentication server. The authentication challenge may include an indication of a first public key of a first keypair, a first signature of a first private key of the first keypair, and second signatures of second private keys of second keypairs. The client device may determine whether the first public key is a tr...