SECURE TRANSACTIONS WITH CONNECTED PERIPHERALS

摘要

A point-of-sale device (“POS”) is described to include a secure transaction tunnel generator (“STG”). The STG may generate secure tunnels between peripherals attached to the POS and remote network resources. The secure tunnel may be generated using a trusted execution environment (“TEE”) of the POS. The STG may be alerted to the need to generate the secure tunnel based on an alert from the peripheral. The STG may execute under a protected environment and may generate two ends of a secure transaction tunnel using the TEE. The STG may also check the peripheral against whitelists and/or blacklists to determine whether the peripheral is allowed or not disallowed to participate in secure transactions. By generating the secure tunnel, the STG may facilitate performance of transactions in such a way that sensitive information is not available to unsecured processes in the POS. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

主权项

1. An apparatus, comprising:
one or more computer processors; a trusted execution environment (TEE) to execute processes on the one or more computing processors in a protected manner that prevents the processes being executed in the TEE from being accessed by processes executing outside of the TEE; and a security tunnel generator to:
receive a request from a peripheral to perform a transaction with an external network resource;generate a secure tunnel coupling the peripheral and the network resource, using the TEE.