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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:50
Mike Rosing (eresrch@msn.fullfeed.com)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:30:39 -0600 (CST)
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Bill Frantz wrote:
> I was wondering how easy it would be to have code which accepts a password
> or passphrase grab the keyboard interrupts and place itself between the
> hardware and any possible keyboard sniffer. Passing a "duress" password on
> to the sniffer could help identify compromised machines.
If the sniffer is an RF transmitter it won't work at all. If the sniffer
is just software, it should be straight forward to detect. I would think
that once an attacker learns that there is more software to deal with,
they will find a way around it.
If the sniffer is a CCD camera mounted in a hole in the ceiling, you have
real problems :-)
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:50