ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,523, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Garantir LLC (San Diego).

"Hashing messages with cryptographic key components" was invented by Kieran Miller (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for hashing messages with cryptographic key components are provided. In one technique, a message to be hashed with a private key component is identified. During a hash operation relative to the message involving a hash function, the client identifies an internal state of the hash function, which internal state is based on the message. The client sends the internal state of the hash function to a cryptographic device. The cryptographic ...