US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 29 for "System and method for quantum resistant key distribution for securing GTP traffic" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,266, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for quantum resistant key distribution for securing GTP traffic" was invented by Niranjan Mallapura Mallikarjunaiah (Bengaluru, India), Vijay Kumar Kothamasu (Bangalore, India) and Khaja Nayab Rasool (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described for securing traffic between nodes of a network against quantum computing attacks. For example, a first node of a network generates a random number input string and provides the random number input string to a second node. The first node may use the...