ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,323, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Encryption of parameters in configuration files" was invented by Madhukesh Sambashivaiah (Karnataka, India), Raghunandan Prabhakar (Karnataka, India) and Puneet Joshi (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a deployment server derives an initialization vector based on a protection parameter of a configuration file, and encrypts a vulnerable parameter of the configuration file using the initialization vector and an encryption key. The deployment server produces a protected configuration file including the prot...