US Patent Issued to DreamBig Semiconductor on Dec. 2 for "Computer and network interface controller securely offloading encryption keys and WireGuard encryption processing to the network interface controller" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,607, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DreamBig Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Computer and network interface controller securely offloading encryption keys and WireGuard encryption processing to the network interface controller" was invented by Renato Recio (Austin, Texas) and Brian Hausauer (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encryption operations are securely offloaded to a network interface controller (NIC). Encryption keys are securely transferred from a virtual machine (VM) to the NIC and data is securely transferred from encrypted VM memory to secure buffers in the NIC. The NIC handles the encryption and decr...