US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on May 5 for "System and method for performing operation using linear-integer-programing for RSA factorization" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,148, issued on May 5, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"System and method for performing operation using linear-integer-programing for RSA factorization" was invented by Han-Lin Li (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Way Kuo (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing operations using linear integer programming for RSA factorization is provided, including an n/e extractor, a prime factorization calculator, a private key determiner, and a decryptor. The n/e extractor is configured to extract a modulus and a public key exponent from a public key. The prime factorization calculat...