ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,179, issued on May 13.
"Cryptographic method for verifying data" was invented by Bruno Sangle-Ferriere (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, implemented by at least one apparatus, for comparing a first dataset and a second dataset, in particular with a view for determining whether these two datasets are identical. The method not requiring the presence of these two datasets in the apparatus, and including the following steps of: a) mixing a number, called the mixer number, with the first dataset, using a mixing function, in order to obtain mixed data, b) hashing the mixed data using a hash function, and c) comparing the hash...