US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Nonce preprocessing for a security scheme" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,153, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Nonce preprocessing for a security scheme" was invented by Alexander Zeh (Munich), Florian Mendel (Munich) and Martin Schlaffer (Zell am See, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may compute a cryptographic state based on a freshness value. The device may compute a successive cryptographic state based on a successive freshness value. The successive freshness value may be based on a freshness modifier in combination with the freshness value. The device may store the cryptographic state and the successive cryptographic state. The device m...