US Patent Issued on May 13 for "Multiple post-quantum cryptography key encapsulations with authentication and forward secrecy" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,709, issued on May 13.

"Multiple post-quantum cryptography key encapsulations with authentication and forward secrecy" was invented by John A. Nix (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server and a device can conduct mutually authenticated post-quantum cryptography (PQC) key encapsulation mechanisms (KEM) that also support forward secrecy. The device can store a trusted server public key (PK.server) and the server can store a trusted device public key (PK. device). The device can generate (i) a first KEM ciphertext and (ii) a first key with PK.server and encrypt an ephemeral public key (ePK. device) using the first key. Th...