US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Oct. 7 for "System and method for eliminating potential security breach when transitioning to quantum-secure environment" (British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,708, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for eliminating potential security breach when transitioning to quantum-secure environment" was invented by Dmitry Lyssenko (Brussels) and Olufemi Komolafe (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical link is split between network devices into a first logical link and a second logical link. The first logical link is designated for communicating user data. The second logical link is designated for exchanging key identifiers (key IDs) only. The second logical link is left open and unencrypted and the key IDs are e...