US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Dec. 2 for "Threshold secret share generation for distributed symmetric cryptography" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,620, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Threshold secret share generation for distributed symmetric cryptography" was invented by Peter Rindal (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for securely generating secret shares in a distributed manner and distributing those secret shares to cryptographic devices are disclosed. The cryptographic devices can subsequently use these secret shares to perform threshold distributed cryptographic operations (such as encryption or decryption). A threshold number of generating cryptographic devices can each generate ...