US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 27 for "Efficient implementation of ZUC authentication" (Irish, American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,666, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient implementation of ZUC authentication" was invented by Pablo De Lara Guarch (Shannon, Ireland), Tomasz Kantecki (Ennis, Ireland), Krystian Matusiewicz (Gdansk, Poland), Wajdi Feghali (Boston), Vinodh Gopal (Westborough, Mass.) and James D. Guilford (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus relating to an efficient implementation of ZUC authentication are described. In one embodiment, a processor computes a tag update, based at least in part on stored data, for an authentication operation. The tag update is computed by ...