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Maryland Inventors Develop Block/Data Stream Enciphering Method

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Vincent Michael Boyle Jr. of Aberdeen, Md., and Christopher Mark Salter of Columbia, Md., have developed an encryption packet method.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of packet encryption and decryption that allows for pipelining. The first step is to identify the packets in a message to be encrypted. Then, a unique number is assigned to each packet. A value R is acquired. Then, a first register is initialized. An initialization vector IV is generated. Then, the first register is stepped a user-definable number of times. Then, a packet is selected. R and the unique number are combined. Then, a second register ...

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