US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 1 for "Post quantum secure ingress/egress network communication" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,421, issued on April 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Post quantum secure ingress/egress network communication" was invented by Nataraj Nagaratnam (Cary, N.C.), Martin Schmatz (Zurich), Navaneeth Rameshan (Zurich), Vaijayanthimala K. Anand (Austin, Texas) and Jeffrey J. Feng (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Post quantum secure network communication is provided. The process comprises sending, by a client in a first computing cluster, an outbound message to a quantum safe cryptographic (QSC) proxy server in the first computing cluster, wherein the outbound message is addressed t...