Tyler's Education

[Tyler Durden]

Now this might matter. If there's a phone line near the surveilled computer, 
then no blackbag op is necessary. Thus, "fishing" is much easier. If they've 
got to roll the trucks, then they'll probably need to have something fairly 
concrete to nail you with.

-TD



>From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j at ix.netcom.com>
>Reply-To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j at ix.netcom.com>
>To: "J.A. Terranson" <measl at mfn.org>,        "cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net" 
><cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net>
>Subject: Re: Tyler's Education
>Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:32:19 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>
>  From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl at mfn.org>
>  Sent: Jul 4, 2004 12:57 AM
>  To: "cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks at 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 at mfn.org
>
>--John Kelsey
>

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