US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA on Sept. 22 for "Lightweight, resilient, and aggregate symmetric cryptographic tools for internet of things and forensics" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,663, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Fla.).

"Lightweight, resilient, and aggregate symmetric cryptographic tools for internet of things and forensics" was invented by Attila Altay Yavuz (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of data encryption for messages transmitted between two or more computing devices includes determining a current secret key that is shared between a first computing device and a second computing device, calculating a current message authentication code (MAC) based on the current secret key and the message, calculating a subsequent secret key based on the curr...