US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Sept. 23 for "Stateful order-preserving encryption method and apparatus for enhancing security" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,187, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Stateful order-preserving encryption method and apparatus for enhancing security" was invented by Nam-Su Jho (Daejeon, South Korea), Ju-Young Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung-Jin Yu (Daejeon, South Korea) and Young-Kyung Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for stateful order-preserving encryption for enhancing security. The method includes generating an order-preserving ciphertext by performing order-preserving encryption on a plaintext, generating a p...