US Patent Issued to UAB 360 on April 14 for "Hybrid cryptography virtual private networks" (Lithuanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,863, issued on April 14, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Hybrid cryptography virtual private networks" was invented by Karolis Pabijanskas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Mantas Jonytis (Grigiskes, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual private network (VPN) client receives data including a pre-shared key (PSK). The VPN client decrypts the data based on a short-term key pair to obtain a ciphertext. The VPN client then decrypts the ciphertext based on a short-term quantum-resistant key pair to obtain the PSK. A VPN tunnel is then established between the VPN client and a VPN server based on the PSK."

The patent...