US Patent Issued to Angoka on Dec. 2 for "Symmetric key generation, authentication and communication between a plurality of entities in a network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,606, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Angoka Ltd. (Belfast, Great Britain).

"Symmetric key generation, authentication and communication between a plurality of entities in a network" was invented by Yuri Andersson (Belfast, Great Britain), Shadi Razak (Belfast, Great Britain) and Konstantina Papazoglou (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for distributed symmetric key generation by a plurality of entities in a network comprising, for each entity, creating a part of the symmetric key, broadcasting the part of the symmetric key to each other entity of the plurality of entities, receiving parts of t...