Patents by Inventor Ernic F. Brickell

Ernic F. Brickell 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).

  • Method and apparatus for increasing the speed of cryptographic processing
    Patent number: 8155306
    Abstract: Encrypting data in a cascaded block cipher system may be accomplished by applying a first encryption algorithm using a secret shared between first and second parties as a key to generate a secret inner key; applying a second encryption algorithm for a predetermined number of rounds using the secret inner key to generate a plurality of blocks of ciphertext data from a plurality of blocks of plaintext data; and repeating the applying the first encryption algorithm and the applying the second encryption algorithm steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ernic F. Brickell, Gary L. Graunke