"--for-your-eyes-only"

Janusz A. Urbanowicz alex at bofh.net.pl
Thu Jun 30 13:34:21 CEST 2005


On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:16:59PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:54:39 +0200, Janusz A Urbanowicz said:
> 
> > The aim of the secure viewer then was to make difficult to obtain eyes-only
> > message text as a file or a pipe. It checked if output is a live tty,
> 
> Okay, that is something different.  I was solely speaking of a tempest
> resistant viewer - the kind of thing PGP 6 named "secure viewer(/ing
> mode)".

Yes, but if the threat model involves TEMPEST, should it also involve
TEMPEST from optical wavelenghts (reflected light)?
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