[Cryptography] Fun with printers, Secret sharing for family members

[John Levine]

In article <9b3ecf06bc5b7e7eb1b73e746dd88d9708961def.camel at crypto.16bits.net>,
�ngel <angel at crypto.16bits.net> wrote:
>> If I'm not mistaken, many modern printers will store the printed 
>> document locally on a disk. ...

>I think caching may better describe it. Yes, the printer could store
>the document locally before printing. Later printing would *probably*
>overwrite it.

It's true, workgroup printers typically have disks so they can buffer
print and scan jobs and reorder them and other fancy features.  The
disks are pretty big, and I wouldn't count on your print job being
overwritten very soon.

On the other hand, there's an easy way to avoid this problem: use
a printer without a disk.  The cheap home printers don't have them.

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