US Patent Issued to NTT Research on Feb. 17 for "Secure distributed samplers for cryptographic reference strings" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,395, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NTT Research Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Secure distributed samplers for cryptographic reference strings" was invented by Damiano Abram (Aarhus, Denmark), Brent Waters (Austin, Texas) and Mark Zhandry (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology pertains to a method and system for generating a common reference string for use by multiple parties in cryptographic operations. The method involves executing a generation algorithm that creates encryption and decryption codes, generates non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs, and outputs a message for each party. These messages...