ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,600, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Method for improved hash chaining authentication" was invented by Donald E. Eastlake (Apopka, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating messages implemented by a sending device. The method includes the sending device sending a first message that includes an N generation token of a first seed, where N is a first integer value greater than one. The method further includes the sending device sending a second message that includes an N-1 generation token of the first seed and an M generation token of a second seed, where M is a ...