Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic randomization of password challenge
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Application No.: US16726454Application Date: 2019-12-24
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Publication No.: US11227046B2Publication Date: 2022-01-18
- Inventor: Dhulipalla Phaneendra Kumar
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Applicant Address: CH Geneva
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: CH Geneva
- Agency: Crowe & Dunlevy
- Main IPC: G06F21/45
- IPC: G06F21/45 ; G06F21/31

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method of performing a password challenge in an embedded system. The method includes receiving a password, scrambling the sub-words of the password pursuant to scramble control codes, retrieving a verification word, scrambling the sub-words of the verification word pursuant to the scramble control codes, and comparing the scrambled sub-words of the password to the scrambled sub-words of the verification word. Access to a secure resource is granted if the scrambled sub-words of the password match the scrambled sub-words of the verification word. The scramble control codes cause random reordering of the sub-words of the password and sub-words of the verification word in a same fashion, and insertion of random delays between the comparison of different sub-words of the password to corresponding sub-words of the verification word.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210192040A1 DYNAMIC RANDOMIZATION OF PASSWORD CHALLENGE Public/Granted day:2021-06-24
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