Patents by Inventor Orest Bolohan

Orest Bolohan 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).

  • Patent number: 12120223
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides computing systems in which respective quorums of computing nodes securely manage respective secrets associated with cryptographic ledgers according to threshold secret sharing schemes. In particular, membership in the quorums can be changed dynamically and unpredictability to improve security of the quorums against adversarial attacks in which adversaries attempt to compromise or gain control of the computing nodes. More specifically, by changing membership in the quorum dynamically and unpredictability, the ability of the adversary to control at any given time a threshold number of the current members of the quorum and gain access to the secret is dramatically reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: William Douglas Cox, Bo Zhu, Orest Bolohan, Sheldon I. Walfish
  • Publication number: 20240048366
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides computing systems in which respective quorums of computing nodes securely manage respective secrets associated with cryptographic ledgers according to threshold secret sharing schemes. In particular, membership in the quorums can be changed dynamically and unpredictability to improve security of the quorums against adversarial attacks in which adversaries attempt to compromise or gain control of the computing nodes. More specifically, by changing membership in the quorum dynamically and unpredictability, the ability of the adversary to control at any given time a threshold number of the current members of the quorum and gain access to the secret is dramatically reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: William Douglas Cox, Bo Zhu, Orest Bolohan, Sheldon I. Walfish
  • Patent number: 11736278
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides computing systems in which respective quorums of computing nodes securely manage respective secrets associated with cryptographic ledgers according to threshold secret sharing schemes. In particular, membership in the quorums can be changed dynamically and unpredictability to improve security of the quorums against adversarial attacks in which adversaries attempt to compromise or gain control of the computing nodes. More specifically, by changing membership in the quorum dynamically and unpredictability, the ability of the adversary to control at any given time a threshold number of the current members of the quorum and gain access to the secret is dramatically reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: William Douglas Cox, Bo Zhu, Orest Bolohan, Shabsi Walfish
  • Patent number: 11258593
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides computing systems in which respective quorums of computing nodes securely manage respective secrets associated with cryptographic ledgers according to threshold secret sharing schemes. In particular, membership in the quorums can be changed dynamically and unpredictability to improve security of the quorums against adversarial attacks in which adversaries attempt to compromise or gain control of the computing nodes. More specifically, by changing membership in the quorum dynamically and unpredictability, the ability of the adversary to control at any given time a threshold number of the current members of the quorum and gain access to the secret is dramatically reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: William Douglas Cox, Bo Zhu, Orest Bolohan, Sheldon I. Walfish