US Patent Issued to ARRIS Enterprises on Sept. 15 for "White-box soft-locking" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,134, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"White-box soft-locking" was invented by Lex Aaron Anderson (Auckland, New Zealand) and Fariba Barez (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for securely generating an output. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating a white-box implementation having unlocked white-box look up table (LUTs) for node-encoded secrets, the node-encoded secrets to be encoded for operation solely on a node of a network and globally encoded white-box LUTs for globally-encoded secrets to be encoded for operation on the node and at least another ...