US Patent Issued to NXP on Sept. 15 for "Cryptographic agility" (Belgian, German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,103, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Cryptographic agility" was invented by Melissa Azouaoui (Norderstedt, Germany), Christoph Baumann (Graz, Austria), Florian Boehl (Leuven, Belgium), Joppe Willem Bos (Wijgmaal, Belgium), Gareth Thomas Davies (Leuven, Belgium) and Sarah Esmann (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating a device, including: receiving, by the device, a public one-time signature key; receiving, by the device, a secret encryption key; receiving an encrypted update package and signature from an update provider; verifying the signature using the public o...