US Patent Issued to Cryptography Research on May 19 for "Low latency metadata decryption using hash and pseudorandom functions" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,118, issued on May 19, was assigned to Cryptography Research Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Low latency metadata decryption using hash and pseudorandom functions" was invented by Michael Alexander Hamburg ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Evan Lawrence Erickson (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Ajay Kapoor (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for cryptographically protecting data in a computer memory are disclosed. The techniques include dividing the data into a first portion and a second portion, encrypting the first portion of the data to create a first stored form of the data, encrypting the second portion ...