US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Northern Arizona University, Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on March 31 for "PUF-protected pseudo-homomorphic methods to generate session keys" (Arizona, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,839, issued on March 31, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Rome, N.Y.).

"PUF-protected pseudo-homomorphic methods to generate session keys" was invented by Bertrand F. Cambou (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Donald A. Telesca (Rome, N.Y.) and H. Shelton Jacinto (Rome, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for the generation and use of session keys supporting secure communications between a client and server device are disclosed. The client device has or receives a password, whi...