US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 23 for "Cipher accelerator and differential fault analysis method for encryption/decryption operation" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,213, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

"Cipher accelerator and differential fault analysis method for encryption/decryption operation" was invented by Kun-Yi Wu (Tainan, Taiwan) and Yu-Shan Li (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cipher accelerator is provided. An encryption and decryption circuit is configured to perform an encryption and decryption operation according to a control signal. The encryption and decryption operation includes a plurality of normal rounds and a plurality of redundant rounds. A controller is configured to provide a control signal to th...