US Patent Issued to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on June 17 for "Encryption key generating device, encryption key generating program, and encryption key generating/erasing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,384, issued on June 17, was assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Tokyo).

"Encryption key generating device, encryption key generating program, and encryption key generating/erasing method" was invented by Mikio Fujiwara (Tokyo), Masahiro Takeoka (Tokyo) and Masahide Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encryption key generating device includes a shared key separator separating a shared key into a first key and a second key and storing the first key in a non-volatile memory and storing the second key in a volatile memory; a key extender extending the second key to the same key length ...