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

Ángel angel at crypto.16bits.net
Tue Oct 20 20:37:49 EDT 2020


On 2020-10-19 at 22:52 -0400, Bill Frantz wrote:
> 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

This doesn't mean it is stored *on a disk* It might all be on ram. 



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