US Patent Issued to Sophos on March 18 for "Early termination of secure handshakes" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,887, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Early termination of secure handshakes" was invented by Amit Katyal (Bangalore, India) and Venkata Suresh Reddy Obulareddy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshake can be terminated early-i.e., before certificate validation-to reduce server-side demand, which can be particularly advantageous in counteracting Denial-of-Service (DOS) attacks and the like. To this end, an endpoint may provide a one-time password (OTP) in the client hello message during the initial steps of a TLS handshake or similar connec...