US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 2 for "End-to-end encryption with password access" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,688, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"End-to-end encryption with password access" was invented by Brian C. Powell (El Segundo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques to implement end-to-end encryption. A method includes, encrypting content C with an encryption key EK to obtain encrypted content C', generating a key encrypting key KEK based on a password, encrypting the encryption key EK with the key encrypting key KEK to obtain an encrypted encryption key EK', storing the encrypted content C' and the encrypted encryption key EK' such that the encrypted conten...