US Patent Issued to VMware on Jan. 13 for "Cryptographic agility through link layer abstraction" (American, Australian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,283, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cryptographic agility through link layer abstraction" was invented by Sean James Huntley (Dudley, Australia), Vasantha Kumar Dhanasekar (Chennai, India), David E Ott (Chandler, Ariz.) and Daniel James Beveridge (Valrico, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to configuring a legacy application or service with a reconfigurable cryptographic provider capable of leveraging many different cryptographic algorithms, protocols or functions. The application or service can be configured with the reconfigurable cryptographic provider by red...