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more on remote physical device fingerprinting
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:57:13 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: David Josephson <dlj () josephson com> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:37:12 -0800 To: <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] remote physical device fingerprinting Kurt passed on an interesting link to a paper:
From: Kurt Albershardt <kurt () nv net> To: dave () farber net Subject: remote physical device fingerprinting Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:41:59 -0800 Interesting paper. http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2005/fingerprinting/ We introduce the area of remote physical device fingerprinting, or fingerprinting a physical device, as opposed to an operating system or class of devices, remotely, and without the fingerprinted device's known
This is not new. The law enforcement and two-way radio community has been doing this for years to identify radio users, exploiting the characteristic frequency settling waveform as a transmitter starts. An open source tool was released in 1995; the current version is http://xmit.penguinman.com/xmit_id.html It would be useful only for unsophisticated targets; adding a random wander to any remotely measurable parameter should be trivial, and in fact many computing devices do just that now, to spread the spectral content of their internal clock signals in order to meet EMC requirements. ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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