US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on June 10 for "Rekeying a security association (SA)" (Chinese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,392, issued on June 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Rekeying a security association (SA)" was invented by Sandeep Kampati (Bangalore, India), De Sheng (Shenzhen, China), Dharmanandana Reddy Pothula (Bangalore, India) and Bharath Soma Satya Meduri (Bangalore, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the IKE or IPSec SA rekeying, whether the rekey exchange includes the cryptographic suite in the payload depends on whether the cryptographic suite used in the old SA is changed on both ends, e.g., the initiator and the responder. If the cryptographic suite is not changed, then the rekey exchange does n...