ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,097, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).
"Zero trust authentication" was invented by Ethan Heilman (Boston), Lucie Mugnier (Boston), Sharon Goldberg (Boston), Yuval Marcus (Boston) and Sebastien Lipman (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for zero trust authentication. In certain embodiments, a method may comprise providing, from a client computing system to an identity provider (IdP) authority, an authentication nonce value generated by hashing a random value and a public key of the client computing system, and receiving, at the client computing system from the IdP authority, an ...