The present disclosure provides a graphical watermark, a method and an apparatus for generating a graphical watermark, and a method and an apparatus for authenticating a graphical watermark. The graphical watermark includes: a plurality of graphical markers carrying position and pose information, and identity information of the graphical watermark; and a watermark pattern provided between a pair of graphical markers.

A cryptographic method and system. A plurality of ciphers is identified in a message received by a recipient, such message encrypting a digital asset. A private key associated with the recipient is obtained. The private key corresponds to a public key associated with the recipient. The method includes solving for x in the equation: [(f.sub.0(R.sub.0.sup.−1 N′.sub.0 mod S)+P′+f.sub.λ(R.sub.n.sup.−1 N′.sub.n mod S))/(h.sub.0(R.sub.0.sup.−1 N′.sub.0 mod S)+Q′+h.sub.λ(R.sub.n.sup.−1 N′.sub.n mod S))]*h(x)−f(x)=0 mod p, where (i) P′, Q′, N′.sub.0, and N′.sub.n correspond to the ciphers in the received message; (ii) R.sub.0, R.sub.n and S are data elements of the private key; (iii) f(.Math.) is a polynomial function defined by coefficients f.sub.0, f.sub.1, . . . f.sub.λ that are also data elements of the private key; and (iv) h( ) is a polynomial function defined by coefficients h.sub.0, h.sub.1, . . . h.sub.λ that are also data elements of the private key. The value of x is assigned to the digital asset, which is then stored in non-transitory memory or packaged in a message sent over the data network.

A methods comprises: receiving, by a pseudo random number generator module, an instruction to generate pseudo random numbers from a security application; determining, by the pseudo random number generator module, at least one algebraic input parameter value for a transcendental equation from a randomness library in memory of the device, wherein the transcendental equation comprises a transcendental function that is capable of generating transcendental number outputs from algebraic number inputs; calculating, by the pseudo random number generator module, a solution to the transcendental equation based on the at least one algebraic input parameter value; determining, by the pseudo random number generator module, pseudo random number(s) based on the solution; and storing, by the pseudo random number generator module, the pseudo random number(s) in a randomness library for use as seeds for keys by the security application and as subsequent input parameter values for the pseudo random number generator module.

Embodiments of present disclosure relates to and systems to reduce propagation delays in hardware implementation of 3GPP confidentiality or standardized algorithm 128-EEA3 and 3GPP integrity algorithm 128-EIA3 using ZUC module. The reduction of the propagation delays is achieved by improving or optimizing secondary critical paths, which are subsequent to primary critical path, related to the 3GPP confidentiality or standardized algorithm 128-EEA3 and the 3GPP integrity algorithm 128-EIA3. Non-conventional modifications in the hardware implementation are proposed for the improvement or optimization.

Provided are a random number generation device and the like capable of calculating a high precision random number using a memory capacity selected irrespective of the precision of the random number. A random number calculation device is configured to generate first random numbers based on given number and specify, for the given number of second random numbers in a target numeric extent, bin range depending on the first random numbers based on frequency information representing cumulative frequency regarding a frequency of numeric extent including respective second random numbers among given numeric extents, the numeric extent being determined in accordance with a desirable precision.

An electronic watermark embedding apparatus according to an embodiment is an electronic watermark embedding apparatus capable of embedding an electronic watermark into a decoding circuit of secret-key encryption, and includes an embedding unit configured to generate the decoding circuit. The decoding circuit is embedded with the electronic watermark by being input with a common parameter generated in a setup of the secret-key encryption, a secret key of the secret-key encryption, and the electronic watermark, and is capable of decoding an encrypted text encrypted using the secret-key encryption.

An electric vehicle charger includes a power supply and a controller. The power supply is for supplying electric power over a charging connection to an electric vehicle. The charging connection employs charging conductors to supply electric power from the power supply to the electric vehicle for charging. The power supply is adapted to send data to and receive data from the electric vehicle over the charging conductors according to a power-line communications protocol. The controller coupled to the power supply to control supply of electric power to the electric vehicle, The controller is adapted to, prior to initiating supply of electric power by the power supply to the electric vehicle for charging, communicate with the electric vehicle to identify a payment method associated with the electric vehicle and with the payment network to authorize the payment method for payment for electric power supplied to the electric vehicle for charging.

In one example an apparatus comprises accelerator logic to pre-compute at least a portion of a message representative, hash logic to generate the message representative based on an input message, and signature logic to generate a signature to be transmitted in association with the message representative, the signature logic to apply a hash-based signature scheme to a private key to generate the signature comprising a public key, and determine whether the message representative satisfies a target threshold allocation of computational costs between a cost to generate the signature and a cost to verify the signature. Other examples may be described.

Techniques for sorting encrypted data within a software as a service (SaaS) environment. Data is encrypted on a per symbol basis with a symbol based encryption module. Sort and search functionality preserving encryption that allows other modules to sort tokens and to search for tokens is provided. Encrypted tokens that have been encrypted by the symbol based encryption module are stored in a database. Access to the encrypted tokens is provided through the SaaS environment.

A system, method, and device for stochastically processing data. There is an architect module operating on a processor configured to manage and control stochastic processing of data, a non-deterministic data pool module configured to provide a stream of non-deterministic values that are not derived from a function, a plurality of functionally equivalent data processing modules each configured to stochastically process data as called upon by the architect module, a data feed configured to feed a data set desired to be stochastically processed, and a structure memory module including a memory storage device and configured to provide sufficient information for the architect module to duplicate a predefined processing architecture and to record a utilized processing architecture.