US Patent Issued to Ciena on Dec. 16 for "Authenticated channel for encryption management" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,965, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Authenticated channel for encryption management" was invented by Yves Cayer (Ottawa) and Zenon Slodki (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for managing encryption in a network. A local modem is managed by a local control processor (CP) via a local authenticated channel. The local authenticated channel is established between the local modem and a first CP (as the local CP) using runtime authentication material. When the first CP is removed or becomes inoperative, the local modem detects an authentication fai...