US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 8 for "Trust framework against systematic cryptographic breach" (Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,864, issued on July 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Trust framework against systematic cryptographic breach" was invented by Dalton James Nikitas (Seattle), Steve Preston Lightner Norum (Richmond, Va.) and Avni Harilal Rambhia (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives encrypted data that can be decrypted by a first secret to obtain data, wherein the first secret is securely stored by the system, determines that the data encodes a second secret and executable code usable to perform cryptographic operations, and run the executable code to perform the cryptographic operations. The fi...