Power line based theft protection of electronic devices

摘要

Technologies for establishing and managing a connection with a power line communication network include establishing a communication connection between an electronic device and a security server. A default device encryption key associated with the electronic device is changed to correspond with a new device encryption key of the security server. Thereafter, the electronic device may only join a power line communication network of a particular security server using a network membership key, which is encrypted with the device encryption key that the particular security server associates to the electronic device. The electronic device contains a circuit interrupt to interrupt a circuit of the electronic device if the electronic device is not able to successfully decrypt the network membership key.

主权项

1. An electronic device for power line based theft protection, the electronic device comprising:
a memory; a power line communication module to (i) establish a power line communication connection with a security server over the power line and (ii) receive a network membership key encrypted with a first device encryption key from the security server over the power line; a network admission control module to (i) decrypt the encrypted network membership key with a second device encryption key stored on the memory and (ii) determine whether the encrypted network membership key was successfully decrypted; and a hardware circuit interrupter to physically interrupt an electrical circuit of the electronic device in response to a determination by the network admission control module that the encrypted network membership key was not successfully decrypted.