US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Threshold encryption and decryption using a key management service in a provider network" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,700, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Threshold encryption and decryption using a key management service in a provider network" was invented by Matthew J Campagna (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Shay Gueron (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using a key management service to provide K of N threshold encryption and decryption in a provider network. The techniques encompass a K of N threshold encryption process and a K of N threshold decryption process. The encryption process can include encrypting a plaintext datum using a first key to produce a ciphertext datum. A secret s...