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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 10:55:18 EST
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I haven't seen the question about TEMPEST qualification yet, just a
partial reply... hope this will help whomever.

TEMPEST qualification is a program where hardware is certaified to emit
a very low level of EM radiation.  The reason for this is to ensure that
highly-classified material is not ``readable'' at a distance.  It
usually makes the hardware sort of hard to use -- shielding over a CRT
is apparently a real problem -- but it works.

Sometimes they just shield the room instead.

Also, DoD isn't all THAT sensitive about TEMPEST -- it's only classified
a little bit, and that only in the specs.
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				Charlie Martin
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