Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Keyboard-input information-security apparatus and method
- Patent Title (中): 键盘输入信息 - 安全装置和方法
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Application No.: US12410403Application Date: 2009-03-24
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Publication No.: US08156346B2Publication Date: 2012-04-10
- Inventor: Yong Hoon Kim
- Applicant: Yong Hoon Kim
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: Kings Information and Network
- Current Assignee: Kings Information and Network
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Lemaire Patent Law Firm, P.L.L.C.
- Agent Charles A. Lemaire
- Priority: KR10-2009-0004782 20090120
- Main IPC: G06F21/00
- IPC: G06F21/00

Abstract:
A keyboard-input information-security apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes an interrupt-descriptor table for storing a list of addresses of functions for handling interrupts, and storing an address of a secure input interrupt-service routine at a specific location in an address area for an operating-system input interrupt-service routine supported by an operating system; a secure input-device driver for changing keyboard-interrupt-vector information to invoke the address of the secure input interrupt-service routine when a keyboard interrupt is generated by a keyboard, and receiving and encoding data input via the keyboard based on the address of the secure input interrupt-service routine; and a secure input unit for delivering the encoded data from the secure input-device driver to an application program, thereby providing higher-level security than a conventional keyboard-security scheme, and particularly, effectively blocking a port-polling attack or an action trying to change a setting in a debug register.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100185876A1 KEYBOARD-INPUT INFORMATION-SECURITY APPARATUS AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2010-07-22
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