Applied Security: Soft Tempest, Monday 3PM room 516

[Kevin Fu]

The next discussion in applied security is on TEMPEST.

Time:  Monday, November 22 from 3-4PM
Place: NE43-516
Title: Soft Tempest

Ivan Nestlerode has agreed to lead a discussion of the paper by
Markus Kuhn and Ross Anderson:

Soft Tempest: Hidden Data Transmission Using Electromagnetic Emanations

Abstract:

It is well known that eavesdroppers can reconstruct video screen
content from radio frequency emanations.  We discuss techniques that
enable the software on a computer to control the electromagnetic
radiation it transmits.  This can be used for both attack and defence.
To attack a system, malicious code can encode stolen information in
the machine's RF emissions and optimise them for some combination of
reception range, receiver cost and covertness.  To defend a system, a
trusted screen driver can display sensitive information using fonts
which minimise the energy of these emissions.  There is also an
interesting potential application to software copyright protection.

For a copy of the paper, visit NE43-520 or download a copy from
http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~fubob/asrg/ih98-tempest.pdf

Please bring your calendar/preferences so that we can schedule the
meeting time for the next semester.  If you are unable to attend, send
me your preferences.  Thanks.

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Kevin E. Fu (fubob at mit.edu)
PGP key: finger fubob at monk.mit.edu