US Patent Issued on Oct. 21 for "Methods and systems of a packet orchestration to provide data encryption at the IP layer, utilizing a data link layer encryption scheme" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,057, issued on Oct. 21.

"Methods and systems of a packet orchestration to provide data encryption at the IP layer, utilizing a data link layer encryption scheme" was invented by Kelvin R. Franklin (Fremont, Calif.) and Jonathan Flack (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method for packet orchestration to provide data encryption at the internet protocol (IP) layer, includes the step of providing a quantum secure pre-shared key derivation scheme for a data link layer bulk encryption algorithm, meaning the ability to setup a separate communication channel, via the SSH protocol, and leverage ECDH over said channel to ...