US Patent Issued to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT on Nov. 18 for "Public key service for message authentication" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,813, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Public key service for message authentication" was invented by Laurent Pizot (Vancouver, Wash.), Thalia May Laing (Bristol, Great Britain) and Stephen D. Panshin (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A public key service determines a seed value used by a sending device to generate a one-time signature (OTS) private key that the sending device uses to digitally sign a message before sending the message to a receiving device. The public key service generates, based on the seed value, a public key used to authenticate the digitally...