[GLLUG] Wired keyboard EME sniffing

[Richard Houser]

Things like this just really make me want to build a Faraday cage around the
server room I put in... tin foil just isn't good enough anymore.

Seriously though, this could be trivially defeated with a fancy keyboard
that could use a one-time pad synchronized to a teathered computer, right?
Without having RTFA, I assume the scancodes are being read while sent over
the unshielded cables?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Stanley C. Mortel <mortel at cyber-nos.com>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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