ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,677, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Idaho Scientific LLC (Boise, Idaho).
"One-time key derivation" was invented by Andrew James Weiler (Nampa, Idaho) and Nathan Charles Chrisman (Nampa, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating keys comprises a plurality of share selecting modules, each module containing multiple storage buffers connected to a selector. For a given key mixing operation, the selector chooses a key share stored in one of the buffers. A bit-wise XOR gate is connected to the share selecting modules and is configured to bit-wise XOR all selected key shares to generate a mixed key on its output."
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