US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on Oct. 14 for "Galois extension field-based block cipher" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,266, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Galois extension field-based block cipher" was invented by Alan J. Michaels (Blacksburg, Va.) and Kiernan B. George (South Riding, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to a block cipher adaptation of the Galois Extension Fields (GEF) combination technique. In one example, a GEF-based block encryption includes forming an output from a PRNG into a key matrix, where the key matrix is formatted as an invertible square matrix; applying a GEF operation to the key matrix to map elements to a closed subse...