Granted Patent B2

US 12,261,952 · App. 17/981,051 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Inventor: Robert Edward Grant (Laguna Beach, CA)

Assignee: Crown Sterling Limited, LLC

H04L9/0869

Abstract

Claims (14)

1. A method of generating an encryption key, comprising:

obtaining, by a computing device, a first sequence of digits derived from application of a first function to a seed, wherein the seed is a non-perfect square integer, and the first sequence of digits comprises a mantissa derived from a square root of the seed;

obtaining, by the computing device, a second sequence of digits from application of a second function to at least a portion of the first sequence of digits, beginning at a predetermined start position;

deriving, by the computing device, the encryption key from the second sequence of digits; and

encrypting, by the computing device, data with the derived encryption key.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first function comprises a root.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising selecting, by the computing device, the seed as a number ending in 2, 3, 7, or 8.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first sequence of digits comprises a portion of the mantissa.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the step of obtaining the first sequence of digits comprises accessing, by the computing device, a previously stored file containing the portion of the mantissa.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the second function comprises a mathematical function selected from the group consisting of a multiplication, a division, an addition, and a subtraction.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein the second function comprises a mathematical function based upon a digital representation of at least a portion of an image.

8. The method of claim 4 , wherein the second function comprises a mathematical function based upon a digital representation of at least a portion of a piece of music.

9. The method of claim 4 , wherein the step of deriving the encryption key comprises converting, by the computing device, at least a portion of the second sequence of digits to a binary sequence.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second function comprises multiplying, by the computing device, the portion of the first sequence of digits by an integer.

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