%0 Journal Article %A Kyungroul Lee and Kwangjin Bae and Kangbin Yim %D 2009 %J International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 32, 2009 %T Hardware Approach to Solving Password Exposure Problem through Keyboard Sniff %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/4600 %V 32 %X This paper introduces a hardware solution to password exposure problem caused by direct accesses to the keyboard hardware interfaces through which a possible attacker is able to grab user-s password even where existing countermeasures are deployed. Several researches have proposed reasonable software based solutions to the problem for years. However, recently introduced hardware vulnerability problems have neutralized the software approaches and yet proposed any effective software solution to the vulnerability. Hardware approach in this paper is expected as the only solution to the vulnerability %P 1501 - 1503