US Patent Issued to NXP on Oct. 14 for "Processor to accelerate and secure hash-based signature computations" (Dutch, Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,303, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Processor to accelerate and secure hash-based signature computations" was invented by Christine van Vredendaal (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Tobias Schneider (Graz, Austria) and Melissa Azouaoui (Norderstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure processing system configured to produce a hash based digital signature of a message, including: random number generator (RNG); a monotonic counter device configured to produce a monotonically increasing counter value; a hash accelerator configured to produce a hash of the message based upon a random number from...