US Patent Issued to THE BLOCKHOUSE TECHNOLOGY on June 9 for "Storing cryptographic keys securely" (Croatian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,167, issued on June 9, was assigned to THE BLOCKHOUSE TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Storing cryptographic keys securely" was invented by Srdjan Capkun (Oxford, Great Britain), Mario Matijasevic (Zagreb, Croatia) and Vedran Novoselac (Zagreb, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for distributed storage of a cryptographic key comprises generating a plurality of key components, wherein each key component is generated by a different respective computing device or enclave. The key components are suitable for processing to generate a cryptographic key that depends on all of the key components. The method comprises pro...