From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org> Sent: Jul 4, 2004 12:57 AM To: "cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net> Subject: Re: Tyler's Education Interestingly, I have had more than one report of aural acquistion of typists keystrokes being used to attempt to calculate the content of a short keysequence (I assume a password is what was meant by "short keysequence"). These reports indicated "poor, but occasionally lucky results". I wonder if this follows the technique used by Song, Wagner, & Tian to attack SSH-encrypted passwords by watching keystroke timings. J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org --John Kelsey