Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-03-04 Thread GSO
On 03 Mar 2003 22:21:43 -0500 James H. Cloos Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially a steg technique, yes? The image transmitted with radio frequencies is different (how exactly?) to that transmitted optically, the image transmitted optically being the decoded text, with the coded image being

Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-03-04 Thread Markus Kuhn
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote on 2003-03-03 22:56 UTC: MK Putting an anti-tempest filter into freetype2 has been on my todo list MK for a long time Could you guys be so kind as to tell us mere mortals what you're speaking about? Compromising emanations of video display systems. Low-cost

Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-03-04 Thread G S Osler
Anti-aliasing, also the psychological principle that we can recognize a letter of the alphabet from a partial or distorted representation (given the context - i.e. if you know what your're looking for). EM radiation measures, but also radio Optical Character Recognition and varying each use of

Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-03-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
GSO PS A quick plug for the other item on my 'OpenSource the computing GSO environment for Legal work' wish list. A document processor that GSO numbers paragraphs That's a question for comp.text.tex. Juliusz

Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-03-04 Thread Markus Kuhn
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote on 2003-03-04 12:16 UTC: MK - Lowpass filtering the glyphs in horizontal direction Why the glyphs? Wouldn't you want to do that for everything that's displayed? Sure, if that's feasible to implement. Text is just the most interesting and most radio-readable part

Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts [OT]

2003-03-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
That's fun. MK Sure, if that's feasible to implement. Yes, it's easy. And it doesn't break the protocol. Shadowfb, you introduce noise upon blasting to the real framebuffer. Because, GetImage and friends work from the shadowfb, you're not breaking the protocol. You might actually end up with

Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-03-04 Thread Markus Kuhn
G S Osler wrote on 2003-03-04 13:23 UTC: The question is how feasible is it for an average electronics engineer to install the basics needed. Slashdot Nov 99: New Scientist has an interesting article about a new toy we will all want. It's a card that plugs in one of your PCI slots and

Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-03-04 Thread G S Osler
It won't do any harm to start looking at this now. Am not a C programmer as a matter of routine but can handle it if needed so will take a look at freetype2. Cheers, GSO opensource project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/money-go-round __ Do You

Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-03-03 Thread Markus Kuhn
G S Osler wrote on 2003-02-28 21:05 UTC: Do we have any filtered Tempest fonts available for X. BDF was not designed to carry gray-scale bitmap glyphs, as would be necessary to display low-pass filtered fonts. The X11 font system is in addition at present not capable to vary each useage of a

Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-03-03 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
MK Putting an anti-tempest filter into freetype2 has been on my todo list MK for a long time Could you guys be so kind as to tell us mere mortals what you're speaking about? It's got something to do with deploying XFree86 in the American embassy in Moscow, right?

Re: [Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-03-03 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Juliusz == Juliusz Chroboczek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MK Putting an anti-tempest filter into freetype2 has been on my todo MK list for a long time Juliusz Could you guys be so kind as to tell us mere mortals what Juliusz you're speaking about? Presumably the idea is to manipulate the glyphs

[Fonts] filtered Tempest fonts

2003-02-28 Thread G S Osler
Do we have any filtered Tempest fonts available for X. If not how would I go about converting Markus Kuhn's (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/st-fonts.zip). Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) Specification (http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/5005.BDF_Spec.pdf) is the X font