Makes me curious, how relevant is it these days, especially with age of (presumably) lower emission LCD screen?
On Feb 5, 2008 11:00 AM, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 06:16:23AM +0100, George Orwell wrote: > > man gpg > > > > the above cmd mentions anti tempest fonts. what does this mean > > exactly? where are the anti-tempest fonts? i've searched the > > net for them and cannot find them. the only mention of soft > > tempest fonts were within a .zip containing image files claimed > > to be for example only. > > > > do tempest resistant fonts exist? > > No. Or at least, not any longer. There was a font package available > a few years ago that was an offshoot of some work done by Markus Kuhn > and Ross Anderson at the University of Cambridge. More recently, they > improved the attack enough that the fonts were no longer effective. > > See > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/softtempest-faq.html > > I'll update the manual so it does not reference the fonts any longer. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > -- Hideki Saito _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
