Cryptography – Key management – Having particular key generator
Patent
1994-06-06
1995-08-22
Cangialosi, Salvatore
Cryptography
Key management
Having particular key generator
380 50, H04C 926
Patent
active
054447810
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for decryption using cache storage wherein imported ciphertext is decrypted to produce unencrypted plaintext data. As a communication sequence containing an initialization vector and a block of ciphertext is imported, the initialization vector is applied to a cache and to a decoder. The initialization vector is then compared with other initialization vectors stored in the cache to determine whether the specific initialization vector has previously been received and stored. If the specific initialization vector is found to be stored in the cache, then the PN sequence associated with that initialization vector is written to the decoder, and the stored PN sequence is used to decode the imported ciphertext.
If a determination is made that the initialization vector has not been previously received, then the read cache signal instructs the multiplexer to connect the PN generator to the decoder, and the initialization vector is used to generate a new PN sequence. In order to improve the efficiency of future ciphertext decoding utilizing this specific initialization vector, the PN sequence associated with the initialization vector is then stored in the cache together with its corresponding initialization vector. When the next block of ciphertext is received using the same initialization vector, the PN sequence need not be regenerated by the PN generator, but rather may be read from the cache as a stored sequence.
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Lynn Kerry E.
Mincher Richard W.
Zweig Jonathan M.
Apple Computer Inc.
Cangialosi Salvatore
Ferrell John S.
Gard V. Randall
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