US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 9 for "System and method for big number hardware multiplication for cryptography" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,450, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"System and method for big number hardware multiplication for cryptography" was invented by Itzchak Harel (Jerusalem), Roy Naor (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ishai Ilani (Dolev, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs big number multiplication during a cryptographic process. This can occur, for example, when a controller in a storage system encrypts data for storage in its memory or decrypts data read from its memory. To perform the multiplication of these big input numbers quickly, the system uses a modified Toom-Cook algorithm comprising a ...