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公开(公告)号:US12200114B1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-14
申请号:US17451800
申请日:2021-10-21
Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Inventor: Jeff J. Stapleton
IPC: H04L9/08
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for mobile quantum key distribution (MQKD). An example method includes establishing a first connection between a MQKD device and a first device. The example method further includes generating a pair of entangled particles and injecting quantum data that is based on a first particle of the pair of entangled particles into the first device. The example method further includes establishing a second connection between the MQKD device and a host device and injecting quantum data that is based on a second particle of the pair of entangled particles into the host device to facilitate secure communication between the host device and the first device based at least on the pair of entangled particles.
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公开(公告)号:US12200107B1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-14
申请号:US18177568
申请日:2023-03-02
Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Inventor: Brad A. Shea , Jeff J. Stapleton , Robert L. Carter, Jr. , Pierre Arbajian , Peter Bordow , Michael Erik Meinholz
Abstract: A computing entity accesses one or more blocks of a blockchain, encrypts the content of the one or more blocks using a first cryptographic technique to generate one or more first encrypted block values, and writes a first side chain block comprising the one or more first encrypted block values and a first signature to a first side chain. The computing entity accesses at least one of (a) at least one block of a particular second set of one or more second sets of the plurality of blocks or (b) one or more first side chain blocks corresponding to blocks of the second set, encrypts the content of the accessed block(s) using a second cryptographic technique to generate at least one second encrypted block value, and writes a second side chain block comprising the at least one second encrypted block value and a second signature to a second side chain.
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公开(公告)号:US20250015980A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-09
申请号:US17661481
申请日:2022-04-29
Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Inventor: Jeff J. Stapleton , Peter Bordow
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for facilitating extended range encrypted communication. An example method includes automatically navigating, via navigation circuitry of a first drone, to a first location of a first device. The example method also includes generating, by quantum random number generator circuitry of the first drone, a cryptographic key. The example method also includes establishing, by communications hardware of the first drone, a first connection between the first drone and the first device. The example method also includes causing transmission, by the communications hardware of the first drone, of the cryptographic key to the first device, such that the cryptographic key facilitates secure communication between the first drone and the first device.
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公开(公告)号:US12192328B1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-07
申请号:US17662707
申请日:2022-05-10
Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Inventor: Jeff J. Stapleton
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for secure communication based on random key derivation. An example method includes receiving, by communications hardware of a first device, an initial key shared between the first device and a second device. The example method also includes receiving, by the communications hardware of the first device, a first set of seed bits, wherein the first set of seed bits is also received by the second device. The example method also includes deriving, by key derivation circuitry of the first device, a first symmetric key based on the initial key and the first set of seed bits. The example method also includes performing, by data protection circuitry of the first device, a first cryptographic data protection action using the first symmetric key.
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公开(公告)号:US12189833B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-07
申请号:US18434537
申请日:2024-02-06
Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Inventor: Michael Erik Meinholz , Peter Bordow , Robert L. Carter, Jr. , Pierre Arbajian , Jeff J. Stapleton
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for hardware-level encryption by generating and using a quantum obfuscation map (QOM). An example method includes generating one or more quantum obfuscation elements (QOEs) based on a one or more quantum particles and generating the QOM based on the one or more QOEs. The example method further includes receiving an indication of an instance of information/data and determining a location within a memory or a disk storage for each section in a plurality of sections corresponding to the instance of information/data based on the generated QOM.
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公开(公告)号:US20240333476A1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-03
申请号:US18736142
申请日:2024-06-06
Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Inventor: Jeff J. Stapleton
CPC classification number: H04L9/0819 , G06F21/72 , H04L9/0852 , H04L9/0869 , H04L9/14 , H04L9/0816 , H04L9/0827 , H04L9/0833 , H04L63/062
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for hardware security module communication management. An example method includes deriving, by a first HSM, a first cryptographic key based on an initial key and a first set of seed bits. The method also includes receiving a message comprising a second cryptographic key from a key exchange management device, wherein the second cryptographic key is associated with a second HSM. The method also includes deriving, a third cryptographic key based on the first cryptographic key and the second cryptographic key, wherein deriving the third cryptographic key establishes secure communication between the first HSM and the second HSM based on the second HSM having also derived the third cryptographic key. The method also includes performing, a first cryptographic data protection action using the third cryptographic key.
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公开(公告)号:US12073386B1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-27
申请号:US17370545
申请日:2021-07-08
Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Inventor: Todd Steven Biggs , Phillip H. Griffin , Upul D. Hanwella , Mabel Oza , Luiz Silva , Jeff J. Stapleton , Richard Stec , Kurt Paul Stevens , Luis A. Suarez , Sean Xiang Zhang
CPC classification number: G06Q20/3674 , G06F16/285 , G06Q20/3829 , H04L9/0861 , H04L9/3213 , G06Q40/02 , G06Q40/04 , G06Q50/186
Abstract: Securing digital assets in a vault that interfaces with multiple different third-party wallets to store keys/mnemonics. The vault interface accepts input from multiple different party wallets to combine multiple encryptions and secure storage techniques. Numerous cryptographic mechanisms are employed to securely pull a mnemonic phrase from a third-party wallet and into an institution's vault. A customer's mnemonic phrase is securely transported from a personal wallet into a secured institution's encrypted vault using the power of HSM to encrypt and decrypt a customer's mnemonic phrase securely.
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公开(公告)号:US20230306142A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-28
申请号:US18295488
申请日:2023-04-04
Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Inventor: Michael Erik Meinholz , Peter Bordow , Robert L. Carter, JR. , Pierre Arbajian , Jeff J. Stapleton
CPC classification number: G06F21/79 , G06N10/00 , H04L9/0618 , H04L9/0852
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for hardware-level encryption. An example method includes receiving an instance of information/data by processing circuitry; and disassembling, by the processing circuitry, the instance of information/data into a plurality of sections. The processing circuitry assigns each section of the plurality of sections a location in an allocated portion of memory. The locations are determined based at least in part on a quantum obfuscation map (QOM). The QOM is generated based on one or more quantum obfuscation elements (QOEs) corresponding to a quantum state of a quantum particle. The processing circuitry then causes each of the plurality of sections to be stored at the corresponding assigned location in the allocated portion of the memory.
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公开(公告)号:US11663510B1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-30
申请号:US16696221
申请日:2019-11-26
Applicant: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
Inventor: Robert L. Carter, Jr. , Bradford A. Shea , M. Erik Meinholz , Jeff J. Stapleton , Peter Bordow , Pierre Arbajian
CPC classification number: G06N10/00 , B82Y10/00 , H04B10/70 , H04L9/0825 , H04L9/0852 , H04L63/08
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for quantum entanglement authentication (QEA). An example method includes generating, at a first computing device, a first number based on a subset of a first set of entangled quantum particles comprised by a quantum authentication device and associated with the first computing device. Each entangled quantum particle in the first set of entangled quantum particles may be entangled with a respective entangled quantum particle in a second set of entangled quantum particles associated with a second computing device. The example method further includes transmitting an electronic identification of the subset of the first set of entangled quantum particles to the second computing device. In some instances, the example method may further include receiving a second number from the second computing device and authenticating a session between the first computing device and the second computing device in an instance in which the second number corresponds, or is identical, to the first number.
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公开(公告)号:US11645428B1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-09
申请号:US16787244
申请日:2020-02-11
Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Inventor: Michael Erik Meinholz , Peter Bordow , Robert L. Carter, Jr. , Pierre Arbajian , Jeff J. Stapleton
CPC classification number: G06F21/79 , G06N10/00 , H04L9/0618 , H04L9/0852 , H04L2209/16
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for hardware-level encryption. An example method includes receiving an instance of information/data by processing circuitry; and disassembling, by the processing circuitry, the instance of information/data into a plurality of sections. The processing circuitry assigns each section of the plurality of sections a location in an allocated portion of memory. The locations are determined based at least in part on a quantum obfuscation map (QOM). The QOM is generated based on one or more quantum obfuscation elements (QOEs) corresponding to a quantum state of a quantum particle. The processing circuitry then causes each of the plurality of sections to be stored at the corresponding assigned location in the allocated portion of the memory.
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