ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,160, issued on June 16, was assigned to SUNGSHIN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"One-round asymmetric password-based authentication and key sharing method with resilience to pre-computation attacks" was invented by Jung Yeon Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an one-round password-based authentication and key sharing method with resilience to pre-computation attacks and with communication round efficiency, and the method includes: allowing a client to generate a first hash key, a second hash key, and a random number exponent that is a ...