ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,519, issued on June 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Detecting and removing inactive encryption keys during encryption key rollover events" was invented by Jerry Kawata (Nepean, Canada) and Manjunath Ramappa Tahasildar (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may install a new receive encryption key, and may start a timer associated with deleting an old receive encryption key. The network device may provide, to another network device, a message identifying the new receive encryption key, and may determine whether packet counts, successfully decrypted with the old receive encryption key, hav...