US Patent Issued to Google on May 19 for "Random trigger for automatic key rotation" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,123, issued on May 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Random trigger for automatic key rotation" was invented by Jimmy C. Chau (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for using a random trigger probability for determining whether to rotate cryptographic keys. The random trigger probability may be applied for each cryptographic operation that might yield a nonce collision. For example, the random trigger probability may be pre-computed, and each time a request to perform a cryptographic operation is received a random event with the trigger probability may be executed. Based on the ...