US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Sept. 15 for "Verifiable key exchange for cryptography" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,099, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Verifiable key exchange for cryptography" was invented by Dharmalingam Ganesan (Crofton, Md.) and David M. Clifton (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments establish, at a first entity, a common secret key ("k") for encrypted data communication during a key exchange between the first entity and a second entity. Embodiments select a first private key of the first entity and receive, from the second entity, a second public key ("A") of the second entity. Embodiments receive from the second entity a first verification va...