Method and apparatus for securing keystrokes from being intercepted between the keyboard and a browser

摘要

The invention described herein provides a method and system for foiling a keylogger by creating a custom keyboard driver and passing the keystrokes directly to the browser in an encrypted format. The browser (which is used to access the Internet) has a component that decrypts the keystroke before it is sent to the website. Thus the present invention enables the user to go to any website and enter sensitive information (passwords, credit card numbers, etc.) without the keystrokes being intercepted by Keyloggers.;In general terms, the invention described herein provides a method and system for (1) modifying the keyboard driver, (2) encrypting the keystrokes between the keyboard driver and the browser, and (3) notifying the user if the invention has been compromised.

主权项

1. A method for securing keystrokes from being intercepted between a keyboard for a computing device and an application, the method comprising:
(a) running a proprietary keyboard driver on the computing device for handling keystrokes generated by the keyboard; (b) retrieving the keystrokes using the proprietary keyboard driver, wherein retrieving the keystrokes includes bypassing a non-proprietary keyboard driver and a system message queue associated with the computing device such that the keystrokes are processed by the proprietary keyboard driver and are not processed by the non-proprietary keyboard driver or by the system message queue; (c) encrypting the keystrokes using the proprietary keyboard driver; and (d) sending the encrypted keystrokes to the application to be decrypted.