1. Context
1.1 The origins of electromagnetic anticompromission
The term TEMPEST refers to the fight against compromise of electromagnetic origin (hence its other name, "electromagnetic anticompromission"); it refers to electromagnetic disturbances (radiated and conducted emissions) from electronic equipment handling sensitive information, and to the precautions taken to limit these emissions.
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The origins of the TEMPEST phenomenon can be traced back to 1943, in a Bell Telephone Company laboratory, by an engineer working on a Bell 131-B2 cipher (i.e. a piece of equipment whose purpose is to "transform" sensitive information received at the input of the cipher into unintelligible information at the output of the cipher, unintelligible at least to...
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Bibliography
Standards and norms
NATO TEMPEST test standard: SECAN Doctrine and Information Publication (SDIP 27), TEMPEST Requirements and Evaluation Procedures.
TEMPEST UE test standard: Information Assurance Security Guidelines (IASG 7-03), TEMPEST Requirements and Evaluation Procedures.
TEMPEST Zoning Directive France: Secrétariat Général de la Défense et de la Sécurité Nationale (SGDSN)/Agence...
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French Information Systems Security Agency (ANSSI) https://cyber.gouv.fr
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