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

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Mon Oct 19 22:52:39 EDT 2020


On 10/20/20 at 8:44 PM, johnl at taugh.com (John Levine) wrote:

>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.

I have one of those cheap home printers, an HP MFP M277c6 laser 
printer, which I got at Costco. (Toner works better in a lightly 
used printer than ink, which clogs the jets.)

It does store at least one page internally, given that the 
scanner finishes before the printer starts.

Cheers - Bill

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