US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Dec. 16 for "Secure virtual machine and peripheral device communication" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,954, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Secure virtual machine and peripheral device communication" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes exposing a public cryptographic key associated with a peripheral device of a computing system to a guest running on the computing system. The method further includes receiving, from the guest, a message including a cryptographic nonce value encrypted with the public cryptographic key. The method further includes producing the cryptographic nonce value by decrypting the message using a private cryptograp...