US Patent Issued to Cryptography Research on Feb. 10 for "Protection of stored and communicated secret data against side-channel attacks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,754, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cryptography Research Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Protection of stored and communicated secret data against side-channel attacks" was invented by Mark Evan Marson (Carlsbad, Calif.), Michael Alexander Hamburg (Laguna Beach, Calif.) and Helena Handschuh (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are implementations directed to protecting secret data against adversarial attacks by obfuscating the secret data during storage and communication. Obfuscation techniques include, among other things, splitting secret data into a plurality of portions, performing rotation of secret data, sp...