At 7:56 PM -0800 12/22/98, Tiny wrote:
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I`m sorry to ask such a stupid question. Is 'TEMPEST' an acronym, and if so, what exactly does it represent?
It was not originated as an acronym, though some have labored to find the words to make it one, sort of. Best to treat it as not being an acronym. It's a set of specs and testing methods for measuring and controlling RF emissions by computers and other electronic equipment. Shielding with metal enclosures, with filters on inputs and outputs, and so on. The full TEMPEST specs are more or less classified, as might be expected. (Because one does not lightly tell one's enemies what one is measuring for.) Contrary to popular rumor, it is not "illegal" to shield computers, to "use TEMPEST methods," as it were. --Tim May We would go to their homes, and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.