From: pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 14:07:37 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: TEMPEST, Eavesdropping
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>From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>

>>Their chief concern doesn't seem to be folks like us, but rather
>>concerns about vans parking outside high tech and defense contractors
>>and slurping up what they can [...]

>When banks start signing with private keys, then we get an even more
>interesting monitoring problem.

Consider that the international clearing and settlement systems for
interbank transactions process several TRILLION a day in electronic
transactions, and then consider what diverting just a tiny little bit
of that to yourself would be worth. Security in banks is ALREADY
crucial.

Perry