Adam Back wrote: [...]
- It is always the case that targetted people can have hardware attacks perpetrated against them. (Keyboard sniffers placed during court authorised break-in as FBI has used in mob case of PGP using Mafiosa [1]).
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[1] "FBI Bugs Keyboard of PGP-Using Alleged Mafioso", 6 Dec 2000, slashdot
That was a software keylogger (actually two software keyloggers), not hardware. (IMO Scarfo's lawyers should never have dealt, assuming the evidence was necessary for a conviction, but the FBI statement about the techniques used was probably too obfuscated for them - it took me a good week to understand it. I emailed them, but got no reply. Incidently, Nicky Scarfo used his father's prison number for the password, so a well researched directed dictionary attack would have worked anyway.) The FBI reputedly can (usually, on Windows boxen) now install similar software keyloggers remotely, without needing to break in. -- Peter Fairbrother --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com