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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jarkko L Kneckt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Debashis Dash, San Jose, CA (US);
Elliot S Briggs, Carmel, CA (US);
Nisan Reuven, Rehovot, IL;
Qi Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sidharth R Thakur, San Jose, CA (US);
Su Khiong Yong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US);
Tianyu Wu, Monterey, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for medium access control header obfuscation. One example method includes a first device encrypting a data payload using a first encryption algorithm. The first device can encrypt a field of a medium access control (MAC) header using a second encryption algorithm, different from the first encryption algorithm. The first device can generate a data frame comprising the encrypted MAC header field and the encrypted payload. The first device can transmit the data frame to a second communication device.