ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,144, issued on May 19, was assigned to SIX3RO Inc. (Alexandria, Va.).
"Mechanism for post-quantum cryptographic key material resilience" was invented by Adam Charles Firestone (Alexandria, Va.), Hilary Lacey MacMillan (Ashburn, Va.) and Jordan Paul Smilovic (Queens, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first request for a public key is sent to one or more key manager devices. The public key is received from the one or more key manager devices. A cryptographic hash algorithm is applied to the public key, producing a first hashed key. The first hashed key is stored in one or more memory devices. A second request for a cryptographic has...