US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 8 for "Low-cost, high-security solutions for digital signature algorithm" (North Carolina, New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,462, issued on April 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Low-cost, high-security solutions for digital signature algorithm" was invented by Emre Karabulut (Raleigh, N.C.), Bharat S. Pillilli (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Mojtaba Bisheh Niasar (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for digital signature generation security. A method can include generating, by a first device, a first random number, in generating a signature for a communication, masking, using the first random number, only a private key, a hash of the communication, o...