Cryptography inventions 06/08

20080152129 - Data-securing method of program tool: A program tool with a data-securing function includes a flow control center and a plurality of processing units for performing respective processing steps. The flow control center receives and transfers an encrypted input data to perform a decryption step, transfers the decrypted data to one of the plurality of processing... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080152127 - Forward shifting of processor element processing for load balancing: A data processing system, which is particularly useful for carrying out modular multiplication, especially for cryptographic purposes, comprises a plurality of independent, serially connected processing elements which are provided with data in a cyclical fashion via a control mechanism that is capable of transferring data from a set of registers... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080152128 - Stegotext encoder and decoder: The invention comprises an encoder for encoding a stegotext and a decoder for decoding the encoded stegotext, the stegotext being generated by modulating the log power spectrogram of a covertext signal with at least one key, the or each key having been added or subtracted in the log domain to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080152130 - Group signature scheme: An efficient and safe group signature scheme is provided. According to the present invention, an open unit is provided to not an issuer but an opener, and a data required for operating the open unit does not include a key pair of the issuer, so that it is possible to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080152131 - Data transfer device: A data transfer device is provided for descrambling and deinterleaving scrambled interleaved data and transferring the resultant data. An interleave memory stores interleaved data in descrambling units. A DMA device outputs data position information indicating a storage position of each byte of the interleaved data stored in the interleave memory.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080152132 - Broadcast encryption method and broadcast decryption method thereof: A broadcast encryption method and a broadcast decryption method. The broadcast encryption method includes generating a message encryption key using a public key and a secret key generated by using a Strong Diffie-Hellman tuple; encrypting a message by the message encryption key; and generating a message header using a sum... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080152134 - Efficient revocation of receivers: Methods and apparatus for efficient revocation of receivers. In one implementation, a method of broadcast encryption includes: assigning a respective master key to each of a plurality of receivers, where each master key can be used to derive two or more of a plurality of sub keys; revoking one or... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080152133 - Information encryption apparatus and controlling method of the same, computer program and computer readable storage medium: The present invention stores and manages only one piece of key information even if contents information includes a plurality of partial contents arranged in a sequence, and the partial contents are encrypted with different keys. When a piece of contents information includes four partial contents or divided into four partial... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080152136 - Driving recorder, driving recorder system and recording and reproducing method for driving recorder system: A driving recorder system, which enables realizing easy-to-use handling of recorded data, excellent impact resistance and high security with no superfluous operations, includes a driving recorder for recording vehicle driving information and a reproducing apparatus for reproducing the vehicle driving information recorded in the driving recorder. The driving recorder has... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080152135 - Information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a plurality of data encryption devices obtaining and encrypting contents data, a plurality of data decryption devices provided corresponding to the data encryption devices respectively, each of the data decryption devices obtaining the contents data via a user access bus from... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080152137 - Recording device, replay device, integrated circuit, and control program: A recording device performs recording on a recording medium such as a DVD, and playback compatibility of the recording medium is increased. In circumstances such as when a standard is established after the manufacture of a playback apparatus, there are playback devices that physically cannot read information for decrypting encrypted... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080152138 - Audio data transmission method for transmitting encrypted audio data, audio processing system and computer system thereof: The present invention provides an audio data transmission method for transmitting encrypted audio data, an audio processing system and computer system thereof. The audio data transmission method includes providing an audio data, performing an encryption process upon the audio data according to an encryption standard, transmitting the encrypted audio data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080152139 - Apparatus, and associated method, for communicating push message pursuant to push message service: Apparatus, and an associated method, for a mobile station, or other radio communication device, operable pursuant to an instant message, or other push message, service. Prior to effectuation of the communications pursuant to the service, the mobile station logs-in. The log-in utilizes encrypted log-in information pursuant to a log-in procedure,... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080152140 - Mass subscriber management: An authentication and mass subscriber management technique is provided by employing a key table derived as a subset of a larger key pool, a network edge device, and authentication tokens attached on both the network edge device and on a subscriber's computing device. The network edge device and subscriber's computing... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080152141 - Systems and methods for adaptive multiresolution signal analysis with compact cupolets: Systems and methods for signal analysis using orbits of a chaotic system are provided. For example, a multiresolution analysis may be constructed and cupolets may be used to approximate arbitrary signals and compress images. Cupolets may be phase transformed to produce compact cupolets that are well-suited for producing sharp changes... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080152142 - Memory scrambler unit (msu): A memory scrambler unit (MSU) is provided wherein the MSU may be within a single chip wireless transceiver operable to perform voice, data and radio frequency (RF) processing. This processing may be divided between various processing modules that access memory. This MSU may be part of a memory interface operable... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080152143 - Apparatus, system, and method for checking the health of encryption key managers: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for checking the health of encryption key managers (EKM). An identification module identifies an EKM of a plurality of EKMs. A communication module establishes communication with the EKM. A request module requests an encryption key from the EKM. A verification module verifies that... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080152145 - Asset bring-out management system, asset bring-out management method, brought out asset, brought out asset control program: An asset bring-out management system includes a brought out asset, a managing system, an encryption determining unit, and a brought out information registering unit. The managing system manages bring-out of the brought out asset to the outside of a management area. The encryption determining unit determines whether or not encryption... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080152144 - Key protection mechanism: A method of protecting secret key integrity in a hardware cryptographic system includes first obtaining an encryption result and corresponding checksum of known data using the secret key, saving those results, then masking the secret key and storing the masked key. When the masked key is to be used in... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Atmel

20080152146 - Private and controlled ownership sharing: The present invention relates to a method, a device and a system for preventing unauthorized introduction of content items in a network containing compliant devices and enabling users in the network to be anonymous. A basic idea of the present invention is to provide a CA (206) with a fingerprint... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080152147 - Large scale quantum cryptographic key distribution network: A space-based satellite device obtains one or more encryption key symbols. The satellite device transmits the one or more encryption key symbols to multiple nodes of a land-based network using quantum cryptographic mechanisms.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080152148 - Secure broadcasting and multicasting: Techniques are presented for secure broadcasting and multicasting. Communications for multicasting and broadcasting are encrypted and decrypted using a secure communication key. The secure communication key is represented in a broadcast value that is sent to selected parties. The broadcast value represents the product of unique prime numbers and an... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080152149 - Secure data distribution: Data encrypted with a scrambling key Ks are transmitted from a service provider via a master device to a plurality of client devices having unique identifiers, administered by the master device. A set of partial keys comprising a respective partial key for each respective one of the plurality of clients... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080152150 - Information distribution system: The present invention relates to an information distribution system including a distribution device (100) for broadcasting a content and a terminal device (200) for receiving the content broadcast from the distribution device (100). The distribution device (100) includes a PKI-related information acquisition instruction addition determination section (104) for determining whether... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080152151 - Highly available cryptographic key storage (hacks): A system and method for managing trusted platform module (TPM) keys utilized in a cluster of computing nodes. A cluster-level management unit communicates with a local TPM agent in each node in the cluster. The cluster-level management unit has access to a database of protection groups, wherein each protection group... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080144809 - Encryption process, encryption device, and computer-readable medium storing encryption program: A process, a device, and a computer-readable medium storing a program, for encryption. A conversion table having regions each of which stores 2i character codes associated with index values is provided, where i is a natural number predetermined for each region, the 2i character codes are defined in a predetermined... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080144810 - Factoring based modular exponentiation: The present disclosure provides a system and method for performing modular exponentiation. The method may include dividing a first polynomial into a plurality of segments and generating a first product by multiplying the plurality of segments of the first polynomial with a second polynomial. The method may also include generating... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080144812 - Method for performing iterative scalar multiplication which is protected against address bit attack: The system and method for performing iterative scalar multiplication which is protected against address bit attack is provides a methodology, and system for implementing the methodology, for performing an iterative scalar multiplication process utilizing the Takagi algorithm, the most-to-least binary algorithm, or the least-to-most binary algorithm, modified with either a... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20080144811 - Method for simultaneous modular exponentiations: The present disclosure provides a method for performing modular exponentiation. The method may include generating a first remainder (xp) based on an encrypted message (X) modulo a first prime number (p) and generating a second remainder (xq) based on the encrypted message (X) modulo a second prime number (q). The... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080144814 - Method of securely implementing a cryptography algorithm of the rsa type, and a corresponding component: A method for the secure application of a cryptographic algorithm of the RSA type in an electronic component obtains the value of a public exponent e from a given set of probable values, without a priori knowledge of that value. Having determined the value for the public exponent e, the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080144813 - Shuffle-decrypting legitimacy certifying apparatus and method, shuffle-decrypting verifying apparatus and method, program, and recording medium: The present invention is aimed at performing shuffle-decrypting certification which is made more secure by not allowing any knowledge of secret information to leak when certifying the legitimacy of shuffling and decryption. A shuffle-decrypting legitimacy certifying apparatus is supplied with a plurality of encrypted texts, a public key, a decrypting... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080144815 - Tactical radio with integrated satcom capability: A multi-band radio having seamless satellite communication capability is provided. The radio includes: a user interface for controlling operations of the radio; an encryption module; a LOS wireless transceiver for transmitting encrypted data at a frequency in the radio frequency spectrum; a BLOS wireless transceiver for transmitting encrypted data at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080144817 - Password protocol for data communication system: A password protocol uses a multiple word password and provides prompts to a user allowing the user to select the next word in the password from a set of words. The selection of a word causes a client to perform a cryptographic operation and generate a new selection of words.... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080144816 - Public key generation method in elliptic curve cryptography and public key generation system executing the method: A public key generation method in Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), and a public key generation system performing the method are provided. The public key generation method includes reducing a sequence length of the signed ternary τ-adic representation of the private key ‘k’ using properties of an elliptic curve, representing a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080144818 - Semiconductor device including encryption section, semiconductor device including external interface, and content reproduction method: A secure LSI device 1 includes an encryption section 2 for encrypting a program, and an external I/F 50 for inputting/outputting a program or data from/to an external memory 100. In the encryption section 2, the operation of a private key arithmetic processing section 20 is prohibited with respect to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080144819 - Efficient data integrity protection: s

20080144820 - Digital broadcasting transmitting system for conditional access and method thereof, and digital broadcasting receiving terminal and method thereof: Disclosed are a conditional access transmission system and method, and a receiving terminal and method. The transmission system transmits scrambled broadcasting signals including a network identification code (NIC) in the digital broadcasting service. A repeating system repeats the broadcasting signals transmitted by the transmission system to a subscriber station. In... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080144821 - Secure video distribution: Apparatus having corresponding methods, business methods, and computer programs comprises an input circuit to receive packets of encrypted encoded video data from a network; a storage device to store the encrypted encoded video data; a retrieve circuit to retrieve the encrypted encoded video data from the storage device; a decrypt... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080144822 - Method for local conditional access for mobile equipments: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed for conditional access to a digital data stream encrypted with at least one first control word and broadcasted via an emitter of a broadcasting network to at least one mobile equipment, the latter also being connected via a mobile... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080144823 - Photon detecting device and optical communication system: A wavelength demultiplexer demultiplexes a wavelength multiplexed incident photon pulse string based on wavelengths of the photons in the photon pulse string. Each of a plurality of photon detectors detects a photon that is demultiplexed by the wavelength demultiplexer and outputs a signal based on detected photon, and a bias... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080144824 - Securing multimedia network communication: A method for securing human to human communication over a network includes receiving, by a first computer, an incoming authenticated data stream from a second computer over a first communication channel, the incoming authenticateed data stream having been computed using an incoming digital experiential data stream and a first imprint,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom/parc

20080144825 - Method for protecting data from unauthorised access: m

20080144826 - System and procedure for rapid decompression and/or decryption of securely stored data: A procedure and system reduces latency in restoring encrypted or compressed and encrypted data through a security appliance. The security appliance is coupled to a sequential access device and is configured to encrypt or compress and encrypt data provided by an initiator for secure storage on a sequential access device.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080144827 - Caller-identity based security: A method, system and computer-readable medium for providing a user identity-based secure channel between a digital telephone and a service provider is presented. At the service provider, an encrypted voice transmission from a digital telephone is decrypted. The voice transmission was encrypted at the digital telephone by using a user... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080144830 - Secure in-band signaling method for mobility management crossing firewalls: An in-band signaling method that enables secure updates of a care-of-IP address for a mobile host that roams between access networks. In the illustrative embodiment described herein, a mobile host includes an intelligent interface that handles IP networking functions and tunnels IP packets between the mobile host and the mobile... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080144828 - Voice data rf cellular or wlan ic: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module, a radio frequency (RF) section, and an interface module. The baseband processing module coupled to determine when the IC is in a wireless local area network (WLAN) mode and when in the WLAN mode, the baseband processing module is further coupled... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080144829 - Wireless tag, wireless tag reader, decryptor, method for controlling wireless tag and method for managing wireless tag: According to an aspect of the embodiment, a wireless tag which outputs information through a communication part in response to a command of a controlling part. The wireless tag has a storage part which stores a plurality of encrypted identifications. The wireless tag has an output part outputting an identification... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080144831 - Method and apparatus for facilitating the dissemination of content: A content-carrying device, such as, for example, a hardcopy of a photograph, a compact disk (CD) containing music selections, a case that contains the CD, a digital video disk (DVD), a case containing a DVD, etc., has a key device of some type in or on it, such as, for... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080144832 - Secure computation of private values: An embodiment may include a system having a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be configured to receive an encrypted private value of a party, the encrypted private value being generated from a private value with a public-key encryption system and a public key, to send... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080144836 - Distributed encryption authentication methods and systems: A method and system for providing authentication of mutual strangers is provided. For one embodiment, a plurality of routes from an origination node of a network to a recipient node of the network are determined, a portion of the routes is selected, and shares of a random secret key are... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080144835 - Modeling a sensor network design to secure a network against attack: A wireless sensor network may be designed by modeling the network as a function of at least one design parameter and/or at least one threat parameter ε, by assessing the model by varying the at least one design parameter to determine an effect on the at least one threat parameter... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080144833 - Quantum key distribution method and communication apparatus: In a quantum key distributing method of the present invention, a communication apparatus on a reception side performs error correction using parity check matrixes for an LDPC code that have an extremely high error correction ability. In the quantum key distributing method of the present invention, a cyclic code syndrome... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080144834 - Security system communications including encryption: A security system (20) includes a plurality of sensors (22-26) that provide an indication of a security condition to a corresponding plurality of microcontrollers (32-36). Each microcontroller communicates information regarding the security condition to a central control (40). The communications from the microcontroller include using an elliptical public key encryption... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c.

20080144837 - Identity based encrypition: A method of performing IBE cryptography comprising the steps of a key generation server transmitting a master public key to a processor, the processor generating or retrieving a fresh master public key derived from the master public key transmitted by the key generation centre, and the processor using the fresh... Agent: Jacobson Holman Pllc

20080137837 - Encryption method for message authentication: In an encryption method, an input block of data is reversibly processed to produce a string that is at least partially randomized. The randomized string is then encrypted by a block cipher. In decryption, the input block of encrypted data is first decrypted with respect to the block cipher. Then... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator-room 3j-219

20080137838 - Portable storage device and system with hardware key and copyright management function: A portable storage device and system with hardware key and copyright management function is disclosed, which comprises an encryption and copyright setting software and a portable storage device. The encryption and copyright setting software is adopted for encrypting application programs or digital data. The portable storage device comprises an encryption... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080137840 - Privacy enhanced comparison of data sets: A computer implemented method for performing a privacy enhanced comparison of a plurality of data sets includes allocating a private encryption key to each of the data sets; performing an encryption operation for each of the data sets, the encryption operation comprising generating a commutatively encrypted data set of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - Ibm Arc Division

20080137841 - Protecting sensitive data associations: Sensitive data associations for related data values are protected. A set of related data values is received. The set of related data values include at least a first data value and a second data value. The first data value is associated with a first data field and the second data... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20080137839 - Squared weil and tate pairing techniques for use with elliptic curves: Methods and apparati are provided for use in determining “Squared Weil pairings” and/or “Squared Tate Pairing” based on an elliptic curve, for example, and which are then used to support cryptographic processing of selected information. Significant improvements are provided in computing efficiency over the conventional implementation of the Weil and... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080137843 - Electronic device communication system and method: A system and method for electronic device communication. A system includes a client device application including an encryption/decryption module, wherein the module directly transmits and receives data to and from the client device application; and a server device application including an encryption/decryption module coupled to the client device application through... Agent: Apurva M. Bhansali Softex, Inc.

20080137842 - Key transformation unit for a tamper resistant module: Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for securely transporting a software application onto a tamper resistant module (TRM) (103) by using an individualized TRM key set. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises: storing a key pair unique to the TRM (103) in a memory located on the TRM (103),... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080137844 - Method and device for performing a cryptographic operation: A method and device for performing a cryptographic operation by a device controlled by a security application executed outside thereof in which a cryptographic value (y) is produced a calculation comprising at least one multiplication between first and second factors containing a security key (s) associated with the device and... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080137845 - Data encryption over a plurality of mpls networks: A network device negotiates an encryption protocol with another network device, receives data from a trusted client device, encrypts the received data with the negotiated encryption protocol, and applies a label switched path (LSP) label to the encrypted data for transmission to the network device through an untrusted Multiprotocol Label... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080137846 - Ram- based scrambling code generator for cdma: A receiver comprises a memory for storing a scrambling code value and a plurality of fingers, wherein each of the fingers processes a received multipath signal in accordance with at least a portion of the stored scrambling code value for providing symbols associated with a path of the received multipath... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080137847 - Video slice and active region based multiple partial encryption: A selective encryption decoder for decrypting and decoding a selectively encrypted digital video signal has a demultiplexer that receives packets of digital video, certain of the packets being unencrypted and certain of the packets being encrypted. Certain of the encrypted packets carry data representing an active region of a video... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080137849 - Method for the distribution of audio-visual information and a system for the distribution of audio-visual information: A jukebox system, including a server that stores a master library of audiovisual selections; a plurality of jukeboxes, each of which is operable to store audiovisual selections received from the server and to play the audiovisual selections at the request of a user; a communication system through which the server... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080137848 - Reprogrammable security for controlling piracy and enabling interactive content: Technologies are disclosed to transfer responsibility and control over security from player makers to content authors by enabling integration of security logic and content. An exemplary optical disc carries an encrypted digital video title combined with data processing operations that implement the title's security policies and decryption processes. Player devices... Agent: Marc P. Schuyler

20080137850 - Method and system for a generic key packet for mpeg-2 transport scrambling: Methods and systems for a generic key packet for MPEG-2 transport scrambling and descrambling are disclosed and may comprise descrambling multiple package identifier channels in a transport stream utilizing a single generic key packet. The single generic key packet may comprise scrambling keys for each of the multiple package identifier... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080137851 - Native scrambling system: A system for scrambling/descrambling packets of a stream of content, each packet having a must stay clear (MSC) section, the system including an input handler including a receiving module to receive the stream, a characteristic analyzer to analyze the stream in order to determine a data independent characteristic of each... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080137852 - Method and system for a transport single key change point for all package identifier channels: Methods and systems for a transport single key change point for all package identifier channels are disclosed and may include descrambling a received transport stream comprising multiple package identifier (PID) channels with multiple key change points, and synchronizing at least a portion of the multiple key change points to occur... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080137853 - Method of providing fresh keys for message authentication: The present invention provides a method of operating a mobile unit in a wireless communication system. Embodiments of the method may include providing access request message(s) including information indicative of a first counter and a message authentication code formed using a first key. The first key is derived from a... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.c.

20080137855 - Communication device, communication system, communication method, and program: A TCP 2003 is terminated in an intermediate driver 2006 within a gateway device 20, a TCP 3003 is terminated in an intermediate driver 3006 within a gateway device 30, and a frame is transferred between the intermediate drivers with a method not causing a congestion control such as a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080137856 - Method for generating indirect trust binding between peers in peer-to-peer network: Provided is a method for generating indirect trust binding between peers in a P2P network that allows communication and interaction between peers with trust even without an integrated processing server. In the method, a source peer transmits an initialization request message to a destination peer to receive a session identifier... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080137854 - Secure data transmission utility system: A secure data transmission utility system which provides the ability to transmit any data from point A to point B across a data network or an Internet network without the possibility of being “hacked” is disclosed. The data being transmitted may be (but is not limited to) data such as... Agent: Zecurity, Lp

20080137857 - Systems and methods for distributing and securing data: A robust computational secret sharing scheme that provides for the efficient distribution and subsequent recovery of a private data is disclosed. A cryptographic key may be randomly generated and then shared using a secret sharing algorithm to generate a collection of key shares. The private data may be encrypted using... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080137858 - Single-channel transmission of qubits and classical bits over an optical telecommunications network: Systems and methods that allow for transmitting qubits and classical signal over the same channel of an optical telecommunications network that includes an optical fiber. The method includes sending the qubits of wavelength λS over a quantum optical path that includes the optical fiber during a time interval ΔT0 when... Agent: Opticus Ip Law, Pllc

20080137860 - Discoverable secure mobile wifi application with non-broadcast ssid: The invention is a system and method for establishing and maintaining network communication between two or more mobile vehicles without broadcasting an SSID to the world. The invention uses WiFi as the communication protocol, but provides for an alternate method of providing secure SSIDs. The alternate method provides a means... Agent: John L. Sotomayor Suite 300

20080137859 - Public key passing: An improved approach to public key passing is provided to inhibit man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks during an exchange of public keys over one or more public networks. In one embodiment, a method for securely passing public keys includes encrypting a first user public key, wherein the first user public key is... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080137861 - Security code production method and methods of using the same, and programmable device thereof: A method of producing a security code by means of a programmable user device is described. The security code produced represents in itself both the user and the user device. In one embodiment, a service provider code representing a service provider by whom the user is registered with his/her user... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080137862 - System, device, and method for communication, apparatus and method for processing information, computer program, and recording medium: A communication system uniquely identifying a communication partner within a predetermined coverage area and transmitting and receiving information in a predetermined protocol, includes a device and an information processing apparatus with one performing wireless communication with the other within the predetermined coverage area. The device includes a random number generating... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080137863 - Method and system for using a key management facility to negotiate a security association via an internet key exchange on behalf of another device: A key management facility for a communication network masquerades as a first device within the communication system during an Internet Key Exchange (IKE) negotiation with a second device within the communication system. The key management facility establishes, on behalf of the first device, a security association with the second device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080137866 - Apparatus for encrypting/decrypting real-time input stream: Disclosed is an apparatus for encrypting/decrypting a real-time input stream. The present invention includes a control unit, a key schedule unit, and a block round unit. Accordingly, the present invention realizes the encryption and decryption of AES algorithm in a manner of hardware, thereby enabling to carry out the encryption... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080137867 - Retrieval and transfer of encrypted hard drive content from dvr set-top boxes to a content transcription device: A system and method for the retrieval and transfer of encrypted content from a failed set-top box by a content transcription device. When content is recorded to the storage device of a set-top box, the content is encrypted with a content instance key. This content instance key is encrypted with... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080137865 - System, method, and device for playing back recorded audio, video or other content from non-volatile memory cards, compact disks, or other media: A secure software package for original equipment manufacturers to run in electronic devices in order to access and dynamically decrypt encrypted audio video or other content from a memory storage device such as a memory card, optical or hard disk such that the user interface of the device need only... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve Sampson LLP

20080137864 - System, method, and service for tracing traitors from content protection circumvention devices: A traitor tracing system generates a hypothesized model of the circumvention device that models a hypothesized set of device keys compromised by the circumvention device. The system iteratively invokes a subset tracing system to identify a compromised device key until substantially all the compromised device keys in the set of... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.c.

20080137868 - Distributed encryption methods and systems: A method and system for providing communication over arbitrary distances with a desired probability of security is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention shares of a random key are encoded, the random key for effecting communication of a message through a network employing a cryptographically strong forward... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080137869 - Key management system for digital cinema: Key management in a digital cinema system (10, 100 and 1000) occurs by encrypting a feature key associated with encrypted content with a transmission key exchanged with a decryption module (60, 601, 602, 6001, 6002, 6003 and 6004), that serves to decrypt encrypted content. The encrypted feature key undergoes transmission... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080130868 - Scrambler and storage device using the same: A scrambler that facilitates encryption of data to be recorded and a magnetic storage device using this are provided. The scrambler has a shift register of a plurality of stages and an exclusive OR circuit that finds the exclusive OR of the logic of the stages of the shift register... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080130870 - Data processing method and related device: Data processing method and related devices for determining the result of a first type of operation involving an operand in an electronic entity comprising a non-volatile storage unit, includes the following steps: converting a data, derived from at least one key portion designed to be used with the operand in... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080130873 - Flexible hardware architecture for ecc/hecc based crytography: A circuit for implementing elliptic curve and hyperelliptic curve encryption and decryption operations, having a read only memory with no more than about two kilobytes of accessible memory, containing first programming instructions. An arithmetic logic unit has access to second programming instructions that are resident in a gate-level program disposed... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080130869 - Method to secure an electronic assembly against attacks by error introduction: The invention concerns a method to secure an electronic assembly implementing any algorithm against attacks by error introduction. The method according to the invention consists in performing an additional calculation using a verification function on at least one intermediate result in order to obtain a calculation signature and in performing... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20080130872 - Multimode block cipher architectures: An architecture for a block cipher, where the architecture includes functional units that are logically reconfigurable so as to be able to both encrypt clear text into cipher text and decrypt cipher text into clear text using more than one block cipher mode based on at least one of advanced... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080130871 - Permute unit and method to operate a permute unit: A permute unit is described comprising a permute logic and a crossbar working in cycles defined by clocking signals and generating one valid output vector per cycle by treating two parallel input vectors per cycle according to an adequate scheme, wherein the permute unit is double pumped by performing two... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080130875 - Low-cost pseudo-random nonce value generation system and method: Briefly, a low-cost system and method for pseudo-random nonce value generation is disclosed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080130876 - Method for private-key encryption of messages, and application to an installation: The invention concerns a multiple private key and secondary key cryptography method, including segmentation into blocks having a specific number of characters, and, for each block, a first step of encrypting each block with a first part of the multiple private key, determining an intermediate key specific to the block... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080130874 - Runtime configurability for crt & non crt mode: A cryptographic engine for modulo N multiplication, which is structured as a plurality of almost identical, serially connected Processing Elements, is controlled so as to accept input in blocks that are smaller than the maximum capability of the engine in terms of bits multiplied at one time. The serially connected... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080130877 - Method of performing secure and compact exponentiation for cryptography: The invention relates to a method for secure and compact exponentiation. The inventive method can be applied in the field of cryptology where cryptographic algorithms are used in electronic devices such as chip cards.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080130879 - Method and system for a secure pki (public key infrastructure) key registration process on mobile environment: The invention relates to method and system for a secure PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) key registration process in a WPKI (Wireless PKI) environment comprising a registration server and client provided with a key pair. Especially the invention relates to a registration method, where a registration request for a public key... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080130878 - Method for generating, operating, and using a sparse w-naf key for encryption: A method for generating, operating, and using a sparse w-NAF key for encryption is disclosed. The method for generating a key comprises generating a string of a number of coefficients, in which at most one coefficient, excluding 0, among a consecutive w number of coefficients, corresponds to a positive odd... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080130880 - Multikey support for multiple office system: A novel approach is proposed for centralized administration of a multikey for a plurality of clients at a set of remote office/branch offices (ROBOs). A multikey having a set of properties, permissions, and policies is first associated with a secure item present at one or more of the ROBOs. A... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080130881 - Method and apparatus for encrypting data: A method of encrypting data is provided. The method includes dividing data in packet units into N data blocks; generating an initial counter value using a random number used for generating an encryption key for encrypting the data blocks; generating N counter values by increasing the initial value by a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080130882 - Secure printing via rfid tags: A printing system adapted for use in a computing infrastructure includes a printer for printing documents; a radiofrequency identification (RFID) reader for communicating with at least one RFID tag and the computing infrastructure; a plurality of RFID tags for authenticating a user; a link for providing communication between an RFID... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Tuscon Division

20080130883 - Methods and systems for digital image security: Methods and systems for securing digital imagery are provided. In one respect, embedding, compression, encryption, data hiding, and other imaging processing techniques and systems may be provided for digital image security. In one non-limiting example, a method for producing a compressed and encrypted image is provided. An image may be... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p.

20080130884 - Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same: To accomplish this, for executing a specific process according to a submitted job, the image data and log information of the job is transmitted to the image managing apparatus to store them when the image processing apparatus can communicate with the image managing apparatus. After transmission of the image data... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080130886 - Content security layer providing long-term renewable security: In an exemplary embodiment, digital content is mastered as a combination of encrypted data and data processing operations that enable use in approved playback environments. Player devices having a processing environment compatible with the content's data processing operations are able to decrypt and play the content. Players can also provide... Agent: Marc P. Schuyler

20080130885 - Reproducing device, recording device, recording medium, data processing method, data processing program, data recording method, data recording program, and integrated circuit: To provide a data generating device capable of preventing unauthorized extraction of plaintext content between decryption processing and digital watermark embedment processing. A content reproducing device B102 to which the present invention relates obtains restoration information and, in accordance with the restoration information, selectively performs predetermined restoration processing and processing... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080130888 - Method and apparatus for generating optical pulses for qkd: Methods and apparatus for generating coherent optical pulses (P1′, P2′) in a quantum key distribution (QKD) station (Alice-N) of a QKD system (10) without using an optical fiber interferometer (12) are disclosed. The method includes generating a continuous wave (CW) beam of coherent radiation (R) having a coherence length LC... Agent: Opticus Ip Law, Pllc

20080130887 - Secure data communication apparatus and method: A secure data communication system configuration to encrypt the data to be transmitted within the random phase fluctuations of the field spectrum of a low temporal coherence source and to decrypt the data at the receiver through an autocorrelation technique. The optical field encryption technique disclosed herein uses a dual... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.l.c.

20080130889 - Multi-data rate cryptography architecture for network security: An architecture and associated methods and devices are described that include a plurality of stages of cipher round logic, each stage configured to perform cryptographic processing of plaintext data in a counter mode and output ciphertext data, a plurality of multipliers, each multiplier configured to receive the ciphertext data output... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080130890 - Enhanced data security with redundant inclusive data encryption segments: A computerized method, program product, and a service to protect critical data by first splitting the data into N streams. A partitioning algorithm is applied to each stream to remove a portion of the data, the portion removed from one stream being included in another stream. Each stream is then... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.c

20080130891 - Integrated circuit device interface with parallel scrambler and descrambler: An interface for an integrated circuit (IC) device. The interface includes a scrambler to combine a plurality of plaintext data streams and a pseudorandom key sequence. The scrambler includes a pseudorandom number (PRN) source and a combiner. The PRN source provides a pseudorandom number. The pseudorandom key sequence is based... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20080130892 - Apparatus and method for applying ciphering in universal mobile telecommunications system: Apparatus and a method for ciphering messages in mobile telecommunications system user equipment are disclosed. The apparatus is arranged to receive ciphering configuration parameters in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer; forward ciphering configuration parameters to a Radio Link Control (RLC) or Medium Access Control (MAC) layer; and, in response... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080130895 - Method and system for deploying advanced cryptographic algorithms: A method and system for deploying a suite of advanced cryptographic algorithms that includes: providing a legacy cryptographic interface that is associated with a legacy operating system and a legacy application, and supports a suite of legacy cryptographic algorithms; providing a suite of advanced cryptographic algorithms that includes one or... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson Pc

20080130896 - Method and system for increasing the accuracy and security of data capture from a paper form: A method and system is provided for increasing the accuracy and security of data capture from a paper form where the form was completed electronically and printed out prior to submission. The invention utilizes two-dimensional barcode technology to dynamically capture data entered electronically into the form. The data contained in... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, Pllc

20080130893 - 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 cryptographic co-processor that enables the platform entity to utilize cryptographic functions provided... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080130894 - Multi-data rate security architecture for network security: An architecture and associated methods and devices are described in which a first selectable data path may be associated with a first port operating at a first data rate, a second selectable data path may be associated with a second port operating at a second data rate, and a third... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080130899 - Access authentication system, access authentication method, and program storing medium storing programs thereof: When a decryption-key request is transmitted from a client computer to a management server via a network apparatus, the network apparatus instead of the client computer adds location information to the decryption-key request. When the decryption-key request reaches the management server, location information stored therein is compared with location information... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080130898 - Identifiers in a communication system: A method and apparatus including units configured to send a request from a first network entity to a user equipment for an identifier and receive a message indicating that a public key is required from the user equipment by the first network entity. The method and apparatus also includes units... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080130900 - Method and apparatus for providing secure communication: A method for providing secure communication in a computer system or network is disclosed where two or more clients, connect by firewalls and/or network address translation devices where no direct connection is possible, communicate via a proxy communication server using secure message transmission protocols such as the Secure Socket layer... Agent: Jeffrey Hall

20080130897 - Method and system for transmitting information across a firewall: A method (300;400) and system (100) for transmitting information across a firewall (130b) between multiple endpoints (120) and gateways (135), in a resource management environment (such as the TME) having characteristics that are firewall-incompatible. A gateway proxy (125g) and an endpoint proxy (125e) are associated with the endpoints and the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080130901 - System and method for transparent disk encryption: A data storage system providing transparent encryption. The data storage system has a hardware encryption/decryption engine and a register coupled to the hardware encryption/decryption engine. The register is for securely storing a key for encrypting and decrypting data. The key may not be read from outside the data storage system.... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20080130902 - Secure wireless instrumentation network system: The present system having a secure wireless infrastructure with a key server acting as a key distribution center. The key server may be the core of the network, securely admitting new nodes or devices, deploying and updating keys and authorizing secure communications sessions. The system may also share secure keying... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.