| news: European patent granted on VEST technologies |
| Written by Ron Kelson |
| Wednesday, 09 July 2008 00:00 |
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Synaptic Laboratories Limited today announced that it has been awarded European Patent EP 1820295 (B1) which forms part of its international patent strategy. This patent describes the innovative hardware dedicated bijective accumulator that is at the heart of the VEST cipher design. Synaptic Labs' accumulator has the distinctive property that each bit of the accumulator state is updated using a function supplied a unique set of inputs.
An abstract diagram of the patented 83-bit wide VEST-4 core accumulator round function.
In the high-level diagram above each of the output bits is the result of a unique nonlinear function supplied a unique set of 6 inputs selected from the left of the bit. Each of the 83 output bits is then permuted before being supplied as input into the next round.
About Synaptic Laboratories Limited Synaptic Laboratories Limited is developing the next generation of secure communications protocols for global communications networks. Synaptic is guided by a vision of "Long term, high-assurance global data security for all stakeholders". Synaptic drives data security through the development of innovative security technologies founded on well studied cryptographic techniques. Synaptic can be found on the Web at http://synaptic-labs.com |
| Last Updated on Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:17 |
