ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,992, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Validating public keys used in client certificate workflows" was invented by Nebi Mert Aydin (Odenton, Md.), Kelly Anne Rooker (Ellicott City, Md.), Martin C. Stonebraker (Sparks, Md.), Karl Eric Anderson (Columbia, Md.), Jacob A. Niebloom (Baltimore) and Joshua Kupershmidt (Somerville, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key validation service may automatically determine whether an unauthorized public key was used by a client to log into a host using client-based authentication. This may allow the service to detect that an attack has occurred to circumvent t...