ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,398, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Arqit Ltd. (London).
"System and method for trustless key provisioning" was invented by Barry Childe (Sussex, Great Britain), Jon Dapre (Hampshire, Great Britain), David Webb (Sussex, Great Britain), David Williams (Surrey, Great Britain), James Brown (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Michael Mari (Sussex, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encryption key provisioning that includes providing, by a quantum computing safe method, a shared secret data to a device and to a security service; using the provided shared secret data to provide a root key; and using the root key for...