US Patent Issued to THALES DIS FRANCE on Aug. 12 for "Method for securing a multiple point multiplication operation against side-channel attacks" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,615, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).

"Method for securing a multiple point multiplication operation against side-channel attacks" was invented by David Vigilant (Malakoff, France), Steven Madec (Montigny le Bretonneux, France) and Mylene Roussellet (Saint Savournin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for securing against side channel attacks. An elliptic curve cryptographic process comprises a multiple points multiplication operation using predetermined scalar values, Pi being points of an elliptic curve over a finite field defined by parameters (F, E, G, N) together ...