Patent ID: 8832813

Claim:
A method, comprising: executing at a first computing device a secure boot process; initiating at the first computing device establishment of a secure channel between the first computing device and a second computing device, wherein the first computing device comprises a non-secure portion and a secure portion and the second computing device at least partially hosts a service that a user of the first computing device seeks to access; receiving a prompt at the first computing device from the second computing device over the secure channel, wherein the prompt requests a user voice response for use in making an authentication decision for the user based on the user voice response; capturing the user voice response in the non-secure portion of the first computing device and digitizing the user voice response in the secure portion of the first computing device; and sending the user voice response from the first computing device to the second computing device over the secure channel for use by the second computing device in making the authentication decision for the user based on the user voice response.