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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120106741 | METHOD FOR CREATING AN ENHANDED DATA STREAM The present invention provides a method for secure communication of digital information between a transmission entity and at least one reception entity. The method may be applied in the domain of audio/video data transmission, where stuffing data packets comprising rand... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120072726 | DATA STORAGE AND REMOVAL A system and method for data storage and removal includes providing databases and providing encryption keys. Each database is associated with a database time period and each encryption key is associated with an encryption time period. Data items are received and each da... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069995 | CONTROLLER CHIP WITH ZEROIZABLE ROOT KEY The present invention is a data storage device that includes a control chip with a zeroizable root key. In one embodiment, the control chip comprises a digital memory, the zeroizable root key being a derived root key obtained by applying a firmware root key to a differe... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070002 | PROTECTING INFORMATION IN AN UNTETHERED ASSET The technology described herein for protecting secure information includes a method. The method includes storing, by a plurality of data store devices, the secure information. Each of the data store devices stores at least one part of the secure information. The method ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120045061 | CRYPTOGRAPHY CIRCUIT PARTICULARLY PROTECTED AGAINST INFORMATION-LEAK OBSERVATION ATTACKS BY THE CIPHERING THEREOF A cryptography circuit, protected notably against information-leak observation attacks, comprises a functional key kc for executing a cryptography algorithm. It comprises a second key ki unique and specific to the circuit making it possible to prot... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045063 | Techniques for Managing Keys Using a Key Server in a Network Segment The election of a key server is provided. The key server is a single device that broadcasts an encryption key to other devices in a network segment. Also, automatic reelection of a new key server is provided when a current key server becomes unavailable. Key receivers m... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045062 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information processing device including: a data processing unit that generates an encryption key of content; and a communication unit that transmits an encryption key generated by the data processing unit, wherein the data processing unit generates, as the encryption... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039473 | Efficient Implementation Of Fully Homomorphic Encryption In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method for homomorphic decryption, including: providing a ciphertext with element c, there exists a big set B having N elements zi so B={z1,z2, . . . , zN}, there exists a small ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120023326 | AUTOMATED PROVISIONING OF A NETWORK APPLIANCE Network communication and provisioning systems and methods are provided to enable automatic provisioning of an appliance to provide encryption services for email messages and other types of electronic messages addressed to or from an email domain.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014523 | Key Validation Scheme A system and method for validating digital information transmitted by one correspondent to another in a data communication system. The method comprising the steps of generating a public key in accordance with a predetermined, generating a public key in accordance with a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011360 | KEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARED SECRET CIPHERS Various embodiments are described herein for a Key Management System (KMS) and associated methods for providing authentication and secure shared key distribution capabilities without revealing a device's secret key. The KMS allows one or more accessing applications or d... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110320809 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR KEY REVOCATION IN AN ATTRIBUTE-BASED ENCRYPTION SCHEME A method and apparatus for key revocation in an attribute-based encryption scheme is provided herein. Prior to operation, a key management service performs a randomized setup algorithm resulting in the generation of public parameters and the key management service's mas... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317834 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE MESSAGING IN A HYBRID PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables endpoints to securely send and receive messages to one another within a hybrid peer-to-peer environment.... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317837 | TWO INDICES MOVING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS USING A SHARED MASTER KEY A master key may be used by each participant in a secure communication. Indeed, each participant may select and encryption key from a distinct end of the master key. To eliminate a necessity for the end points in the secure communication to maintain a master key corresp... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PERFORMING AUTHENTICATION Disclosed herein are systems, method and computer readable medium for providing authentication of an entity B by an entity A. In the method, entity A selects a value p, a range [a, b] and a granularity epsilon. Entity A sends p, [a, b], and epsilon to entity B. Entity B... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110311054 | Asymmetrical Chaotic Encryption Implementations and techniques for asymmetrical chaotic encryption are generally disclosed. One disclosed method for asymmetrical encryption includes determining a ciphertext control block from data, where the ciphertext control block is based at least in part on one or... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311049 | Information Theoretic Security Mechanisms Using a Time-Varying Key In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: storing a key on a storage medium of a first apparatus, where a value of the key varies over time, where the key is configured to enable decryption of encrypted information; and sending a plurality of communications from t... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311055 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND MEDIA FOR SECURE KEY MANAGEMENT IN A NON-SECURED, DISTRIBUTED, VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT WITH APPLICATIONS TO CLOUD-COMPUTING SECURITY AND MANAGEMENT The present invention discloses methods, devices, and media for secure key management in a non-secured, distributed, virtualized environment with applications to cloud-computing security and management. Methods include the steps of: receiving an encryption request for p... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314275 | MANAGING ENCRYPTION KEYS Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to manage encryption keys are disclosed. An example method to manage encryption keys includes obtaining data including a private key, determining that the data cannot be read according to a first format by attempting to re... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110305336 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR Provided is an information processing apparatus including a board on which electronic components are provided, a content encryption section configured to encrypt a content with a device key, a first storage section which is provided as one of the electronic components o... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110299687 | AUTOMATED KEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method for automatic key and certificate management is disclosed. In particular, a key store in a base computer contains both new and previously viewed cryptographic keys. In one embodiment, for each new key, if a corresponding certificate matches an existi... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296185 | Protection of Control Plane Traffic Against Replayed and Delayed Packet Attack Techniques are provided for determining freshness of control messages in a network. At a first device that is to enter into a secure communication session with a second device, timestamp information and time window size information are sent to the second device in a con... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110293096 | Multi-Level Key Management A key manager provides a way to separate out the management of encryption keys and policies from application domains. The key manager may create cipher objects that may be used by the domains to perform encryption or decryption, without exposing the keys or encryption/d... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110286598 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus includes a key retaining section retaining a key for use in writing data in a data storage area of another information processing apparatus or reading data stored in the data storage area, and a storage section that stores data. The i... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110280404 | ITERATIVE DATA SECRET-SHARING TRANSFORMATION Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for iterative data secret-sharing transformation and reconversion. In one aspect, data secret-sharing transformation and reconversion is provided in which each bit of an input stream of bits of data is split, on ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110280402 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR UTILIZING CRYPTOGRAPHIC FUNCTIONS OF A CRYPTOGRAPHIC CO-PROCESSOR A computer platform is provided that comprises a processor and a cryptographic co-processor coupled to the processor. The computer platform further comprises a platform entity coupled to the processor. The platform entity establishes a secure relationship with the crypt... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276490 | SECURITY SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS WITH PUBLICLY VERIFIABLE PROOFS OF COMPLIANCE Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing security guarantees in security service level agreements (SLAB). For instance, a security SLA may specify a level of service to be provided to a user with respect to at least one security property (e.g., conf... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271110 | KEY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING A REKEY MECHANISM According to some embodiments, a key management apparatus for deploying in a smart grid system adapted to receive metering data from smart meters connected to at least one relay via a network, includes: a key control mechanism that derives a key array of individual purp... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271115 | CERTIFICATE INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method of storing in a computer device digital certificate data from a digital certificate are provided. When a digital certificate is received at the computer device, it is determined whether the digital certificate data in the digital certificate is store... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271097 | Loosely-Coupled Encryption Functionality for Operating Systems Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for loosely-coupled encryption functionality for operating systems. A data packet is processed through one or more internet protocol stack layers to generate a processed data pack... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264925 | SECURING DATA ON A SELF-ENCRYPTING STORAGE DEVICE Disclosed embodiments relate to a method for securing data on a self-encrypting storage device. The method may comprise, for example, receiving, by a self-encrypting storage device, information indicating a procedure for securing data stored on the self-encrypting stora... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261961 | REDUCTION IN BEARER SETUP TIME A method and apparatus are provided for reducing latency and/or delays in performing a security activation exchange between a communication device and a network entity. The communication device may pre-compute a plurality of possible keys using a base key and a pluralit... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255694 | ENCODING/DECODING CIRCUIT An encoding/decoding operation portion includes an encoding/decoding operation circuit and an avoiding path for detouring the encoding decoding operation circuit and can select between encoding or decoding input data in the encoding/decoding operation circuit and detour... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252234 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILE-LEVEL DATA PROTECTION Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for encryption and key management. The method includes encrypting each file on a computing device with a unique file encryption key, encrypting each unique file encryption key with... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110243332 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, SOURCE DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DESTINATION DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM A data processing system comprises a plurality of key production modules each of which stores keys required to encrypt data and decrypt the encrypted data, produces a new key, encrypts the newly produced key by using one of the keys stored therein as a master key, and s... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243331 | SHARED RANDOM NUMBERS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN SECRET COMMUNICATION NETWORK In a secret communication network including a center node and multiple remote nodes, the center node is provided with a virtual remote node which functions as a remote node similar to each of the remote nodes. Random numbers shared between the center node and each remot... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246775 | System and Method For Providing Unique Encryption Key A system and method for providing a unique encryption key including a receiver, at a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) adapter, configured to receive a configuration file, a processor, at the VoIP adapter, configured to decrypt the configuration file using a default k... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110235801 | SECURE TRANSCODING OF CONTENT A source device determines content rights for encrypted content in the first encoding standard using a first rights data file. The source device creates a second rights data file for transcoded content in the second encoding standard. The source device performs a key ma... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110225406 | System and Method for Pre-Operating System Encryption and Decryption of Data Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, an encryption... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219239 | PC Secure Video Path A system and method are disclosed for creating a secure video content path, or a protected media content bus, within an unsecure personal computer. A portable security module, or electronic key safe, may be inserted into a personal computer that has different internal c... | 09/08/2011 |
