US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Dec. 9 for "Hybrid PKI keyloader methods and systems" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,021, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Hybrid PKI keyloader methods and systems" was invented by Britta Hale (Aptos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for cryptographically securing communication systems between a plurality of communication devices includes manually providing a pre-shared encryption and/or authentication key via one or more key loader devices to the communication devices; deriving a PKI based protocol derived symmetric encryption and/or authentication key; processing the pre-shared enc...