US Patent Issued to The Regents of University of California on Feb. 10 for "Lightweight network authentication for resource constrained devices via mergeable stateful signatures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,559, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Regents of University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Lightweight network authentication for resource constrained devices via mergeable stateful signatures" was invented by Abdulrahman Bin Rabiah (Irvine, Calif.), Yugarshi Shashwat (Riverside, Calif.), Silas Richelson (Riverside, Calif.) and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signature-based authentication is a core cryptographic primitive essential for most secure networking protocols. A new signature scheme, MSS, allows a client to efficiently authenticate herself to a server. The new scheme is modeled i...