US Patent Issued to Ampex Data Systems on July 7 for "Maintaining and determining confidentiality, authenticity and integrity of recorded data" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,587, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ampex Data Systems Corp. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Maintaining and determining confidentiality, authenticity and integrity of recorded data" was invented by Malcolm A. C. Weir (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The encryption system may include a host apparatus and a remote apparatus. The host apparatus may generate an asymmetric encryption key pair that comprises a first key and a second key. The host apparatus may deliver the first key to the remote apparatus. The remote apparatus may generate a symmetric encryption key. The remote apparatus may encrypt a key block using the firs...