US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 28 for "Elliptic curve cryptography masked blinding countermeasure" (New Hampshire, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,092, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Elliptic curve cryptography masked blinding countermeasure" was invented by Mojtaba Bisheh Niasar (Durham, N.H.) and Bharat S. Pillilli (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Masked scalar blinding circuits for a side channel analysis (SCA) attack countermeasure are provided. A circuit can include logic gates configured to receive a private key and generate a first private key value and a second private key value that sum to the private key, a first multiplier configured to generate a first product based on a first random nu...