Laptops and TEMPEST

Dale Thorn dthorn at gte.net
Sun Dec 8 10:17:27 PST 1996


Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> Lucky Green wrote:
> >     If you really need to keep your information processing
> >     "private", then you can either isolate yourself inside
> >     a double-shielded room of solid copper; power everything
> >     with batteries; have no wires leading out of that room;
> >     make damned sure the door has the nice secure wiping strips
> >     to complete the shield when you close it -- or move your
> >     information processor into the middle of a whole bunch of
> >     the same or worse RF/RFI/EMI emitters, and just _maybe_
> >     your data will get lost or become inaccessible because
> >     of the overload of the detection equipment by much larger
> >     interference fields.  Or use paper, pencil, and one-time pads
> >     and burn everything that's done "in the clear" and really
> >     scrunch the ashes into dust.
> > [Again, I am not the author of the above post.]

> An interesting use of one time pads -- to keep one's own secrets.
> And where to keep the pads themselves?

I apologize sincerely for mentioning this, but in reference to "where
to keep the pads", maybe that's why Don Wood (when he was at NSA)
got into doing what he does.







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