US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 24 for "Network device and data decryption method" (Chinese, Thai Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,794, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network device and data decryption method" was invented by Weizhi Le (Shenzhen, China) and Bin Cao (Bangkok).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a network device includes a chip including a hardware encryption and decryption circuit and a one-time programmable (OTP) storage area; and a receiver configured to receive a to-be-decrypted file, where the to-be-decrypted file comprises a ciphertext. The hardware encryption and decryption circuit is configured to obtain a root key plaintext from the OTP storage area, and de...