US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 12 for "Masking ciphertexts using random elements for secure decryption" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,622, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Masking ciphertexts using random elements for secure decryption" was invented by Michael Mirkin (Tivon, Israel), Allon Adir (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Ronen Levy (Haifa, Israel), Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel), Nir Drucker (Zichron Yaakov, Israel) and Eyal Kushnir (Kfar Vradim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to mask a ciphertext using four random elements to generate masked ciphertexts. The processor can send the masked ciphertexts to a server device. The processor can receive masked plaintexts f...