US Patent Issued to Entrust on Aug. 12 for "Cross-certification for secure binding of cryptographic systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,661, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Entrust Corp. (Shakopee, Minn.).

"Cross-certification for secure binding of cryptographic systems" was invented by John Robert Gray (Nepean, Canada), Michael Ounsworth (Sioux Lookout, Canada) and Serge Jean Maurice Mister (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for cross-certification to bind together two cryptographic systems are disclosed. One method includes receiving, from a first certificate authority at a second certificate authority, a cross certificate request, the cross certificate request including an attribute unique to the first certificate authority. The method a...