ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,287, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Chaining message authentication codes" was invented by Stephen D. Panshin (Corvallis, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for authenticated-encryption and authenticated-decryption operations for conducting authenticated-encryption communications between a host device and a peripheral device. A sending device performs authenticated-encryption operations that apply a symmetric encryption algorithm on plaintext to encrypt the data and generate an authentication tag or message authentication code ("MAC")...