Apple Inc.

Lucie Kucerova

Thomas P Mensch

Steven Porter Hotelling

Jerrold Von Hauck

Moshe Laifenfeld

Lynn Richard Youngs

Ivan Krstic

Anup K Sharma

Jonathan Pokrass

Thorsten Gernoth

Feng Tang

Michael Ross Malone

Matthew C Waldon

Lucia Elena Ballard

Tal Kaitz

Petr Kostka

Andrei Kolin

Deepti S Prakash

Christopher G Zeleznik

Eitan Hirsh

Ziv Hendel

Gideon Littwin

Etai Littwin

Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu

Yannick L Sierra

Wade Benson

Kyle C Brogle

Kelsey Yukio Ho

Sean P Devlin

Pavan Kumar Ansosalu Vasu

Tomislav Suchan

Embodiments described herein provided techniques to enable peripherals configured to provide secure functionality. A secure circuit on a peripheral device can be paired with a secure circuit on a host device outside of a factory environment without compromising security by verifying silicon keys that are embedded within the secure circuit during manufacturing.

Pairing protocol for peripherals with a secure function

Techniques are disclosed relating to biometric authentication, e.g., facial recognition. In some embodiments, a device is configured to verify that image data from a camera unit exhibits a pseudo-random sequence of image capture modes and/or a probing pattern of illumination points (e.g., from lasers in a depth capture mode) before authenticating a user based on recognizing a face in the image data. In some embodiments, a secure circuit may control verification of the sequence and/or the probing pattern. In some embodiments, the secure circuit may verify frame numbers, signatures, and/or nonce values for captured image information. In some embodiments, a device may implement one or more lockout procedures in response to biometric authentication failures. The disclosed techniques may reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of spoofing and/or replay attacks, in some embodiments.

Biometric authentication techniques

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Zdice, Czechia

Lucie Kucerova