US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 3 for "Continuous authentication of peers in networks using post-quantum pre-shared keys" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,040, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Continuous authentication of peers in networks using post-quantum pre-shared keys" was invented by Amjad Inamdar (Bengaluru, India), Sujal Rajendrabhai Sheth (Ahmedabad, India), Anoop V. A. (Bengaluru, India) and Krishna Priya Balakrishnan (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described for reauthentication of two IPsec peers, during a key refresh process. The peers may reauthenticate each other based upon a shared secret, which in configurations, is a PPK. In configurations the PPKs are stirred (mixed with DH/ECDH...