[GLLUG] Wired keyboard EME sniffing

Clay Dowling clay at lazarusid.com
Mon Oct 27 16:44:34 EDT 2008


Just remember to put your paper on a heavy bare metal sheet before 
writing.  Picking up your notes off of a blotter or the lower pages on a 
pad of paper is kind of trivial.

Clay

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Stanley C. Mortel wrote:

> I think I'll just go back to paper and pencil !!!!!
>
>>  --Researchers Read Electromagnetic Emanations From Wired Keyboards
>> (October 20 &  22, 2008)
>> Swiss researchers have demonstrated that keystrokes from wired keyboards
>> can be read remotely from distances of up to 20 meters.  The keyboards
>> emit electromagnetic waves.  The researchers at Security and
>> Cryptography Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne have
>> described four different methods of eavesdropping on keystrokes on wired
>> keyboards.
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10072967-83.html?tag=mncol;title
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/20/keyboard_sniffing_attack/
>>
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