HyperPass: Secure Password Input Platform

Michael Kiperberg, Nezer Zaidenberg

2021

Abstract

Confidential information, like passwords and credit card numbers, travel from the user’s local machine to a remote server via secure communication protocols. Whereas remote servers are serviced by security specialists, local machines are more vulnerable to memory attacks and keyloggers. To counter these attacks we propose a secure password input platform, called HyperPass, which is based on a thin hypervisor. The thin hypervisor acts as an isolated and secure environment for entering and encrypting user’s confidential information. HyperPass uses the keyboard’s scroll lock LED as a security indicator. Our evaluation shows that the performance overhead of HyperPass is insignificant (≈ 2.79%).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kiperberg M. and Zaidenberg N. (2021). HyperPass: Secure Password Input Platform.In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-491-6, pages 580-587. DOI: 10.5220/0010301905800587

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp21,
author={Michael Kiperberg and Nezer Zaidenberg},
title={HyperPass: Secure Password Input Platform},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2021},
pages={580-587},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010301905800587},
isbn={978-989-758-491-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - HyperPass: Secure Password Input Platform
SN - 978-989-758-491-6
AU - Kiperberg M.
AU - Zaidenberg N.
PY - 2021
SP - 580
EP - 587
DO - 10.5220/0010301905800587