TEMPEST BUCKWHEAT

A Scientific Tempest

Tap water tempest

You know the news isn’t going to be good when the report of a new study cites sources in City Hall rather than the scientific literature. That’s exactly how the story broke in February, reporting a link between tap water and miscarriages in a California study. On February 10, the Los Angeles Times warned its readers in a front page report that “drinking five or more glasses of cold tap water pe...

Soft Tempest – An Opportunity for NATO

NATO countries spend billions of dollars a year on electromagnetic security, of which the Tempest shielding of personal computers, workstations and peripherals is a large component. In the absence of a capable motivated opponent such as the former Soviet Union, this burden on both traditional and new members is increasingly difficult to justify. As a result, many systems at a medium level of se...

Tempest: A Substrate for Portable Parallel Programs

This paper describes Tempest, a collection of mechanisms for communication and synchronization in parallel programs. With these mechanisms, authors of compilers, libraries, and application programs can exploit—across a wide range of hardware platforms—the best of shared memory, message passing, and hybrid combinations of the two. Because Tempest provides mechanisms, not policies, programmers ca...

Tempest: Temporal Dynamics in Anonymity Systems

Many recent proposals for anonymous communication omit from their security analyses a consideration of the effects of time on important system components. In practice, many components of anonymity systems, such as the client location and network structure, exhibit changes and patterns over time. In this paper, we focus on the effect of such temporal dynamics on the security of anonymity network...