ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,618, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Decentralized key generation and management" was invented by Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Srikathyayani Srikanteswara (Portland, Ore.) and Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for decentralized key generation and management are described herein. An information centric network (ICN) node receives a first ICN interest packet for public encryption parameters of an identity based encryption (IBE) key generation center (KGC). Public encryption parameters for the KGC are rece...