Patents by Inventor Carol Anne McNab

Carol Anne McNab has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20030190046
    Abstract: A three-party signing protocol uses a Trusted Third Party (denoted T) to simulate a two-party protocol in which a sender, designated party A, anonymously signs data intended for a particular receiver, designated party B, such that B can verify the signature on the data without learning A's true identity, and data and signatures received by different receivers cannot be cross-linked, aggregated, or associated with a single sender. In this three-party signing protocol, A has only one public/private signature key-pair. In the three-party signing protocol, T is permitted to “see” signatures generated by A, but B is not permitted to “see” signatures generated by A, unless they are randomized or encrypted, since doing so would permit A's generated signatures and signed data to be cross-linked. Thus, in the three-party signing protocol, T is used to “vouch to B on behalf of A” that signatures generated by A are valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: matthew-kamerman, Stephen Michael Matyas,, Carol Anne McNab