ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,726, issued on March 17, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).
"Using a single AES key to encrypt PKCS #7 files" was invented by Jarryd Chengalroyen (Cape Town, Canada) and Darin Scott Andrew (Lehi, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cryptographic systems and methods are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of generating a plurality of key pairs in response to receiving a request from a client for one or more digital certificates. The key pairs are associated respectively with the one or more digital certificates. Also, each key pair includes a public key and a private key. The method further i...