MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517023620 A) filed by Capital One Services, Llc, McLean, U.S.A., on March 17, for 'parallel secret salt generation and authentication for encrypted communication.'

Inventor(s) include Osborn, Kevin; Zarakas, James; Dupuis, Mark C; and Chigurupati, Srinvasa.

The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "In a method of facilitating encrypted communications between a transmitting system having a unique identifier and a receiving system, a key generation system generates at least one encryption master key for use with the unique identifier and an encryption algorithm to produce a transmitting system-unique encryption key. The key generation system also generates a shared secret master key for use with the unique identifier and a second encryption algorithm to produce a shared secret value. The at least one encryption master key and the shared secret master key are then stored in an encryption information database. The key generation system transmits the at least one encryption master key and shared secret information to the transmitting system and transmits the at least one encryption master key, the shared secret master key and the unique identifier to the receiving data processing system."

The patent application was internationally filed on Aug. 14, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/030134.

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