US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 23 for "Rekeying a security association using a security parameter index transform" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,606, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Rekeying a security association using a security parameter index transform" was invented by Richard Mark Sczepczenski (Hyde Park, N.Y.), Daniel Hughes (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Alol Antony Crasta (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments implement rekeying keys of a Security Association (SA) using an SPI Transform to provide secure data transfer in a computing environment. A disclosed method comprises detecting, by a local key manager (LKM) executing on a computing node, an expired rekey timer of an SA between ...