US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on July 29 for "Mutual authentication method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,306, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Mutual authentication method and apparatus" was invented by Mingyu Zhao (Shanghai) and Xueqiang Yan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to mutual authentication methods and apparatuses. In one example method, a digital reflection (DR) sends a first message to a terminal device, where the first message includes a first DR public key that is a public key of the DR signed by using a private key of a home network. The DR encrypts a first random number by using a second terminal device public key. The DR sends a sec...