US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 25 for "Network coding-based post-quantum cryptography" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,949, issued on March 25, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Network coding-based post-quantum cryptography" was invented by Muriel Medard (Belmont, Mass.), Alejandro Cohen (Brookline, Mass.), Rafael Gregorio Lucas D'Oliveira (Somerville, Mass.) and Salman Salamatian (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method provide a hybrid communication scheme that achieves high communication rates with post-quantum computational security guarantees. Messages to be securely communicated are first mixed using an individually secure encoding, such as a linear network code, and some of the encod...