US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 30 for "Reversing symmetric encryptions using keys found in snapshots-per-file keys, random and transmitted outside" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,457, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Reversing symmetric encryptions using keys found in snapshots-per-file keys, random and transmitted outside" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel), Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel), Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes identifying a process that includes both a write operation and a transmit operation, wherein the write operation comprises performing a malicious process on data that renders the data unusable to an owne...