ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,270, issued on April 22, was assigned to QuSecure Inc (Petaluma, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for providing signatureless, confidential and authentication of data during handshake for classical and quantum computing environments" was invented by Chris Cap (Bayville, N.J.), Barry Van Hooser (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sarah McCarthy (Carrickfergus, Great Britain) and Louie Gasparini (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for handshaking, without a certificate authority, to provide at least post-quantum communications security over a computer network. The method generates an authentication tag, hashing, by an i...