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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Kingston Digital, Inc., Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Inventor:
Scott Newman Ashdown, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
Kingston Digital, Inc., Fountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0891 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2013.01); H04L 9/3236 (2013.01); H04L 9/3247 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for transmitting digital data to a recipient via a communications network includes providing digital data and digitally signing the digital data using N cryptographic keys. Each of the N cryptographic keys is associated with a same sender of the digital data, and N>1. The recipient receives the digital data and verifies the digital signature using N cryptographic keys associated with the N cryptographic keys used to sign the digital data. In dependence upon verifying the digital signature, the recipient accepts the digital data as being authentic.