US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on July 14 for "Establishment of forward secrecy during digest authentication" (Finnish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,772, issued on July 14, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Establishment of forward secrecy during digest authentication" was invented by Vesa Lehtovirta (Espoo, Finland), Mohit Sethi (Helsinki), Jari Arkko (Kauniainen, Finland) and John Mattsson (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for establishing forward secrecy during digest access authentication are provided. A method is performed by a client device. The method includes performing digest access authentication with a server device. The digest access authentication includes sending a first request towards the server device for a...