US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 7 for "Encryption processing apparatus, encryption processing method for encryption processing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,712, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Encryption processing apparatus, encryption processing method for encryption processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshihiko Shimokawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akiyoshi Momoi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encryption processing apparatus includes a table generation unit configured to generate a masked non-linear transformation table using a random number as a mask value, a storage unit configured to store the mask value and the masked non-linear transformation table, a first selection unit configured to select, from among the mask value an...