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

Richard Outerbridge outer at interlog.com
Wed Oct 21 15:38:31 EDT 2020


> On 2020-10-21 (295), at 02:56:34, Stephan Neuhaus <stephan.neuhaus at zhaw.ch> wrote:
> 
> On 10/21/20 2:37 AM, Ángel wrote:
>> 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.
> 

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> If your threat model includes someone getting the document containing important secrets off nonvolatile memory anywhere in your printer, why risk it?
> 
> Fun

Anyone interested in a 35 year old RS232 serial dot matrix form fed Apple ImageWriter? :)
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