Abstract: A secure keypad system has a touch sensitive screen (11) with a plurality of distinct fields (12) on a surface, where each field (12) has an associated input value. A plurality of force sensors (16, 17) are coupled to the screen (11) and arranged at individual force sensor locations to sense individual forces in response to the screen (11) being touched and to generate corresponding individual force signals. Identification means are provided for identifying a field (12) being touched based on the force signals, and generating means are provided for generating the input value associated with the field (12) being touched. An electrically conductive, force transmissive casing (20) encloses the force sensors, the identification means and the generating means.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for secure information processing. In particular, the present invention relates to an apparatus for and a method of providing secure encryption of sensitive information, often information related to money transactions, which must be kept secret. It has recently been found that monitoring the power supply leads and/or input/output ports of e.g. a microprocessor or a chip-card processor performing information encryption in an apparatus may reveal the security sensitive information. According to the present invention, a cost-effective and fast solution to this problem has been found. The solution utilises secondary power storing means that may be encapsulated together with the microprocessor so as to prevent unauthorised access to the processor's power supply leads. This encapsulated power supply is capable of supplying power to the microprocessor during security critical phases of an encryption program running on the microprocessor.