US Patent Issued to Bitdefender IPR Management on March 11 for "Privacy-preserving filtering of encrypted traffic via handshake decryption and re-encryption" (Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,296, issued on March 11, was assigned to Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus).

"Privacy-preserving filtering of encrypted traffic via handshake decryption and re-encryption" was invented by Ovidiu M. Craciun (Buchare, Romania), Bogdan C. Firuti (Buchare, Romania), Daniel I. A. Fetti (Salva, Romania) and Constantin D. Cernat (Buchare, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described systems and methods protect client devices such as personal computers and IoT devices against harmful or inappropriate Internet content. When a client uses an encrypted handshake to hide the identity of the end server, e.g., in applications i...