Kaspersky Lab Assigned Patent
Encryption of user data for storage in cloud server
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 27, 2017 at 2:49 pmAO Kaspersky Lab, Moscow, Russia, has been assigned a patent (9,596,221) developed by Lepeshenkov, Konstantin E., and Kononov, Eldar M., Moscow, Russia, for a “encryption of user data for storage in a cloud server.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for encryption of user data for storage on a remote network server. In one aspect, an example method includes collecting, by a software client, one or more sets of user authentication data from a user device, performing user authentication using one or more sets of user authentication data, when user authentication is successful, calculating a hash of at least one set of the user authentication data, generating an encryption key from the hash of the user authentication data, encrypting the user data using the generated encryption key, and transmitting the encrypted user data to the remote network server for storage.“
The patent application was filed on August 15, 2014 (14/460,545).