US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 29 for "Hardware-based message block padding for hash algorithms" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,064, issued on April 29, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hardware-based message block padding for hash algorithms" was invented by Manoj Kumar (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Silvia Melitta Mueller (St. Ingbert, Germany), Debapriya Chatterjee (Austin, Texas), Niels Fricke (Herrenberg, Germany) and Martijn Diede Berkers (Boeblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes an execution unit for executing a message padding instruction including an operand field indicating a register buffering a message block segment of a message block to be padded and a mode field indicating which hash...