Re: Active Countermeasures Against Tempest Attacks

2003-03-09 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 10:46 PM -0800 3/7/03, Bill Frantz wrote: It has occurred to me that the cheapest form of protection from tempest attacks might be an active transmitter that swamps the signal from the computer. Such a transmitter would still be legal if its power output is kept within the FCC part 15 rules.

Re: Comments/summary on unicity discussion

2003-03-09 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Joshua Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Comments/summary on unicity discussion It doesn't deal with plaintext, just ciphertext. In fact, unicity distance is only valid for a ciphertext only attack. Once you get a known plaintext/ciphertext pair, a high

ADMIN: acm.org subscribers in danger

2003-03-09 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Hi there. A large fraction of the messages being sent to acm.org are being tagged as spam, by some sort of highly over-aggressive anti-spam filter acm.org has put in. I've attempted to contact the postmaster there, but so far I've failed as my attempt to get in touch get tagged as spam, too.