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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2019
Applicant:
Guardtime SA, Lausanne, CH;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Guardtime SA, Lausanne, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 9/0869 (2013.01); H04L 9/3247 (2013.01);
Abstract
A set of secret, indexed keys is generated and used in requests from a signing entity to a signing server for digital signature of messages. The signing server maintains a counter as well as a hash tree that aggregates requests during a round into a root value that is stored in an append-only data structure in a repository. Each signing entity is associated with a leaf of the hash tree. After a signature is formed, the counter for the requesting signing entity is incremented, whereby the secret key that was used cannot be used again.