US Patent Issued on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods using DNS tunneling for fast symmetric session encryption key establishment using a computing device" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,101, issued on Oct. 28.

"Systems and methods using DNS tunneling for fast symmetric session encryption key establishment using a computing device" was invented by James E. Bennison (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and machine-readable recording medium for accelerated exchange and secure provisioning of symmetric session encryption-keys between systems by tunneling over the public Internet domain name service (DNS) to establish an encrypted communication session, a method referred to as DNS Fast Open (DFO), which improves on the speed of the prior-art by routing data more efficiently across the internet wi...