[Cryptography] ***SPAM*** Re: [FORGED] Attackers will always win, and it's getting worse!

Jerry Leichter leichter at lrw.com
Wed Jul 12 17:58:10 EDT 2017


>> Who's going to write the first paper on attacking such a device through power analysis of the sounds it makes as it runs?
>> 
>> TANSTAAFL
> 
> Have you not seen the cover of Philip Agee's 1975 whistleblowing
> memoir?
> 
> https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Company-Diary-Philip-Agee/dp/0883730286/
> 
> methinks the CIA solved this problem during the Ford administration.
My answer was tongue in cheek, but in fact if I remember right, Spycatcher - 
https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Catcher-Autobiography-Intelligence-Officer/dp/0670820555/ref=pd_cp_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=6KN89S8SAWPETD0Z43CD <https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Catcher-Autobiography-Intelligence-Officer/dp/0670820555/ref=pd_cp_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=6KN89S8SAWPETD0Z43CD> - discusses listening to the sound of typing on Soviet crypto machines to determine the cleartext that was being typed into them.
                                                        -- Jerry

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