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Stealing Keys from PCs using a Radio: Cheap Electromagnetic Attacks on Windowed Exponentiation

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What makes this news? TEMPEST ANYONE (Score: 1)

by bsdguy@pipedot.org on 2015-03-23 02:31 (#5FZK)

I learned about doing this back in the Navy in the late 1970s. This is exactly why there are protocols over what electronics can be used when on a warship. Back in the 1980s it was possible to pick up random radiation to discover the position of a ship fairly far away, and if one had the right equipment even in those days keystrokes could be decoded based on the radiation from the keyboards and terminals.

So I have to say that those who do not read history are doomed to learn the lesson again.

bsdguy

Re: What makes this news? TEMPEST ANYONE (Score: 2, Informative)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-03-23 04:33 (#5G4F)

To tell you the truth "what makes this news" is the fact that it was in the queue, there hadn't been a story for a couple days, and I'm very busy at the moment...

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