ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,629, issued on July 1, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Acknowledgement-based key retirement" was invented by Sourav Basu (Bengaluru, India), Tarun Jaswanth (Bengaluru, India), Kaustav Majumdar (Bengaluru, India) and Manish Singhvi (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for acknowledgement-based retirement of expired secure association keys (SAK). A new SAK is generated by a key server. The new SAK is transmitted to members of a connectivity association (CA). The new SAK for key server ingress traffic is installed. An ingress SAK installation acknowledgement is re...