Re: Laptops and TEMPEST

[ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)]

Lucky Green wrote:
>     If you really need to keep your information processing
>     "private", then you can either isolate yourself inside
>     a double-shielded room of solid copper; power everything
>     with batteries; have no wires leading out of that room;
>     make damned sure the door has the nice secure wiping strips
>     to complete the shield when you close it -- or move your
>     information processor into the middle of a whole bunch of
>     the same or worse RF/RFI/EMI emitters, and just _maybe_
>     your data will get lost or become inaccessible because
>     of the overload of the detection equipment by much larger
>     interference fields.
> 
>     Or use paper, pencil, and one-time pads and burn everything
>     that's done "in the clear" and really scrunch the ashes into
>     dust.

> [Again, I am not the author of the above post.]

An interesting use of one time pads -- to keep one's own secrets.

And where to keep the pads themselves?

	- Igor.