ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,023, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).
"Symmetric-key infrastructure" was invented by Burton S. Kaliski Jr. (McLean, Va.) and Glen S. Wiley (Maidens, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for provisioning a key server to facilitate secure communications between a web server and a client by providing the client with a first data structure including information on how the web server may obtain a target symmetric key are presented. The techniques can include: provisioning the key server with a second data structure including information on how the key server may generate the first data structure; rece...