US Patent Issued to Cryptography Research on Aug. 11 for "Techniques and devices for configurable memory encryption and authentication" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,186, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cryptography Research Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques and devices for configurable memory encryption and authentication" was invented by Ajay Kapoor (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Marcel Van Loon (Oss, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and techniques involve flexible encryption, decryption, retrieval, and authentication of data. The systems may include a cryptographic processor that, in a first selectable mode of operation is configured to identify plaintext blocks, generate encrypted ciphertext blocks, process sequentially the ciphertext blocks to obtain an authen...