The present application is the U.S. National Phase of International Application No. PCT/CN2011/077472, titled “ANTI-PRYING ENCRYPTED KEYBOARD”, filed on Jul. 22, 2011, which claims the benefit of priority to Chinese patent application No. 201010269450.2 titled “ANTI-POKING ENCRYPTION KEYBOARD”, filed with the Chinese State Intellectual Property Office on Aug. 27, 2010. The entire disclosures thereof are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to an encryption keyboard, and in particular to an to anti-poking encryption keyboard.
The hard encryption keyboard of a bank self-service equipment bears works of inputting and encrypting a bank password of a user, and thus a working key and a master key of the bank are stored in a core processing part of the keyboard. For an unspeakable purpose, some criminals usually jimmy or poke the keyboard to steal the user password and even to decrypt the working key and master key of the bank in order to steal bank information, which threatens the security of information and money of the user and the bank directly.
The encryption keyboard is generally provided with a poking detection and protection structure and a poking detection and protection circuit. When the encryption keyboard is subjected to a physical poking, the poking detection and protection circuit outputs a self-destruction signal to realize a self-destruction function of the encryption keyboard, so as to prevent the criminals from stealing bank information.
A conventional encryption keyboard generally includes a keyboard panel, a plastic lining plate, keystrokes, water-proof silicone rubber, a main control board and a bottom board, and the above components are firmly assembled with bolts and nuts. Contact surfaces of the plastic lining plate and the water-proof silicone rubber are generally smooth flat surfaces so as to enable the plastic lining plate and the water-proof silicone rubber to abut against each other in parallel. Additionally, for the purpose of water-proof, the water-proof silicone rubber must have a certain thickness generally being 0.5 mm. However, an aggressor may easily penetrate through the water-proof silicone rubber of 0.5 mm with a heated iron wire and then lead out a conductive wire below the keystrokes so as to communicate with the encryption keyboard and thus to steal information such as user's password and bank key.
The object of the present invention is to provide an anti-poking encryption keyboard which may prevent information such as the user's password and the bank key from being stolen.
The present invention provides an anti-poking encryption keyboard, including a keyboard panel and a lining plate, a water-proof silicone rubber, a main control board and a bottom board which are assembled below the keyboard panel in sequence, wherein a protrusion ring is provided on the periphery of a surface of the lining plate abutting against the water-proof silicone rubber.
Preferably, when the anti-poking encryption keyboard is assembled, the lining plate presses the water-proof silicone rubber, and a thickness of the water-proof silicone rubber at a position pressed by the protrusion ring is less than 0.2 mm.
Preferably, the lining plate is made of metal material.
Preferably, the water-proof silicone rubber is correspondingly provided with a groove at a position contacting with the protrusion ring of the periphery of the lining plate.
Preferably, two protrusion rings are provided.
Preferably, the water-proof silicone rubber is provided with two grooves.
Preferably, a depth of the groove is less than a height of the protrusion ring.
Preferably, a thickness of the water-proof silicone rubber at the grooves is less than 0.2 mm.
The embodiments of the present invention have following advantages.
In the present invention, since the protrusion rings are disposed on the periphery of the surface of the lining plate abutting against the water-proof silicone rubber, pressing force is generated when the modules of the keyboard are assembled together. Thus, the lining plate presses the water-proof silicone rubber when the anti-poking encryption keyboard is assembled, and the thickness of the pressed water-proof silicone rubber at the position corresponding to the protrusion ring is less than 0.2 mm. In this way, the aggressor can not penetrate through the lining plate or the silicone rubber to reach the inside of the encryption keyboard easily. This may effectively prevent the conductive wire from being illegally led out from the inside of the encryption keyboard, so as to protect the keyboard information effectively and improve the security performance. Further, since the lining plate is improved by being made of metal material, it is possible to effectively prevent the melting attack from the side of the encryption keyboard. Besides, the thickness of the other portions of the water-proof silicone rubber is not changed, which ensures the water-proof function of the keyboard.
Hereinafter, the technical solutions in embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely in conjunction with drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Apparently, the described embodiments are only a part of, not all of embodiments of the present invention. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all of other embodiments made by the person skilled in the art without inventive effort are deemed to fall in the protection scope of the present invention.
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The lining plate is made of metal material, and two protrusion rings 22 are provided on the periphery of a side surface 21 of the lining plate away from the keyboard panel. When the anti-poking encryption keyboard is assembled, the lining plate 2 presses the water-proof silicone rubber 4, and the thickness of the pressed water-proof silicone rubber at the positions corresponding to the protrusion rings 22 is less than 0.2 mm.
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The water-proof silicone rubber 4 is provided with grooves 41 correspondingly at positions where contact with the protrusion rings 22 of the periphery of the lining plate 2. The depth of two grooves 41 is less than the height of the two protrusion rings 22, and the thickness of the water-proof silicone rubber 4 at the grooves is less than 0.2 mm.
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The lining plate 2, the water-proof silicone rubber 4, the main control board 5 and the bottom board 6 are assembled in sequence by the nine bolts 11 disposed on the keyboard to panel 1. The keystrokes are movably fixed between the keyboard panel and the main control board, and pass through keystroke holes in the lining plate. The assembly of the components is completed by screwing tightly the assembling nuts 7 on the side surface of the bottom board 6 away from the keyboard panel 1. The protrusion rings 22, which are disposed on the periphery of the surface 21 of the metal lining plate 2 contacting with the water-proof silicone rubber 4, fit right into the grooves 41 of the water-proof silicone rubber 4 respectively. Under the action of the pressing force generated from the fastening of bolts and nuts, the thickness of the water-proof silicone rubber at the grooves 41 after being pressed by the protrusion rings 22 is less than 0.2 mm which is less than a diameter of the present thinnest needle. Thus, it is possible to effectively prevent the aggressor from penetrating through the water-proof silicone rubber 4 with heated iron wire, from leading out the conductive wire below the keystrokes and from obtaining information such as user's password and bank key. Consequently, the security performance of the encryption keyboard may be effectively improved. In addition, the thickness of the other portions of the water-proof silicone rubber is still 0.5 mm, which may ensure the water-proof performance of the whole encryption keyboard.
In the present invention, since the lining plate is improved by being made of metal material, it is possible to effectively prevent the melting attack from the side of the encryption keyboard. Besides, two protrusion rings are provided on the periphery of the surface of the lining plate contacting with the silicone rubber, and under the action of the pressing force when modules of the keyboard are assembled together, the thickness of the water-proof silicone rubber at grooves is less than 0.2 mm, i.e. the diameter of the present thinnest needle. In this way, the aggressor can not penetrate the lining plate or the silicone rubber to reach the inside of the encryption keyboard easily. This may effectively prevent the conductive wire from being illegally led out from the inside of the encryption keyboard, so as to protect the keyboard information effectively and improve the security performance. In addition, the thickness of the other portions of the water-proof silicone rubber is not changed, which ensures the water-proof function of the keyboard.
Based on the above description, many modifications and improvements may be made to by the person skilled in the art without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these modifications and improvements should be deemed to fall into the protection scope of the present invention.
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