US Patent Issued to General Dynamics Mission Systems on Sept. 16 for "Full parallelization and enablement of random order computation of cryptographic hashes" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,401, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc. (Fairfax, Va.).

"Full parallelization and enablement of random order computation of cryptographic hashes" was invented by Mark Krumpoch (Fairfax, Va.), David Kornbau (Fairfax, Va.) and Gerardo Orlando (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods efficiently process digests, hashes or other results by performing multiplicative functions in parallel with each other. In various embodiments, successive processing stages are provided for calculating a plurality of powers of the common value, processing each of a plurality of pairs of first ...