US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Aug. 4 for "Determining resistance of a classical algorithm to a quantum breach attempt" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,987, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Red Hat LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Determining resistance of a classical algorithm to a quantum breach attempt" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Stephen Coady (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system obtains a set of instructions configured to execute on a classical computing system. The set of instructions are evaluated to identify a cryptographic algorithm having a cryptographic algorithm type implemented by the set of instructions. Based on the cryptographic algorithm type, a candidate quantum algorithm comprising quantum instructions operable to attempt to br...