Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cryptographic shader in display hardware
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Application No.: US14542481Application Date: 2014-11-14
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Publication No.: US10673622B2Publication Date: 2020-06-02
- Inventor: Dino Dai Zovi
- Applicant: Square, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: SQUARE, INC.
- Current Assignee: SQUARE, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Main IPC: H04L9/08
- IPC: H04L9/08 ; G06T1/20

Abstract:
A technique is introduced that can securely displaying decrypted images while preventing these decrypted images against an attempt to capture such. Some aspects of the technique include loading a cryptographic shader into a graphics processor unit (GPU) in the recipient's computer device separate from the CPU in the recipient's computer device. In some embodiments, the cryptographic shader that is loaded includes instructions that implement a white-box cryptographic algorithm to decrypt encrypted images. A cryptographic key is integrated within the white-box cryptographic algorithm so that the cryptographic key is protected from extraction. When the GPU receives the encrypted images, the cryptographic shader can perform decryption processes to generate decrypted images. The decrypted images are loaded by the GPU directly from the GPU into a frame buffer such that the decrypted images are to be displayed without any portion of the decrypted images passing through the CPU.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160142202A1 CRYPTOGRAPHIC SHADER IN DISPLAY HARDWARE Public/Granted day:2016-05-19
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