US Patent Issued to NTT Research, The Trustees of Princeton University on June 9 for "System and method for security against bounded-storage mass surveillance" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,168, issued on June 9, was assigned to NTT Research Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.).

"System and method for security against bounded-storage mass surveillance" was invented by Jiaxin Guan (New York), Daniel Wichs (Boston) and Mark Zhandry (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a computerized method and system for message encryption in a multi-user setting. The method involves receiving a message of arbitrary length for each user, storing the message in a computerized data store, and executing a setup to generate a master secret and public keys. A r...