US Patent Issued to VeriSign on Sept. 16 for "Hash-based digital signatures for hierarchical internet public key infrastructure" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,396, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Hash-based digital signatures for hierarchical internet public key infrastructure" was invented by Burton S. Kaliski Jr. (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for signing internet data are disclosed. The techniques include accessing a plurality of internet data records. The techniques also include generating, using at least one electronic processor, leaf nodes from the plurality of internet data records, and constructing a recursive hash tree from the plurality of leaf nodes. The techniques also include deriving information sufficient to validate...