US 12634130 B2 / May 19, 2026

Certificate-based encryption implemented with multiple encryption schemes

An encryption module and the decryption module cooperate with an identity-based key generator of users in a communication system in order to use an identity-based and certificate-based construction using two or more encryption schemes. An encrypted message is communicated between users of the communication system such that the encrypted message received by the device of the user needs keys from each of the two or more encryption schemes to be able to decrypt the encrypted message. The validation module cooperates with a limited-time of validity certificate issued from a certificate authority platform to decrypt the encrypted message via the limited-time of validity certificate. The validation module allows the decryption module to decrypt the encrypted message with the limited-time of validity certificate corresponding to an identity of the user when the user is determined to be actually validated for a period of time specified for the limited-time of validity certificate. The certificate authority platform grants the users validation.