ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,203, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Mingtai Chang (Los Angeles).
"Securing secrets and their operation" was invented by Mingtai Chang (Los Angeles) and Lin Zhan (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing secure protection of secrets. In some implementations, a passphrase and data corresponding to an authenticatable entity are received. An entropy extender is generated based at least on the data associated with the authenticatable entity. A key pair is generated using the passphrase and the entropy extender, the key pair c...