The impact of ‘Tempest’ on Anglo-American communications security and intelligence, 1943–1970

@article{Easter2020TheIO,
  title={The impact of ‘Tempest’ on Anglo-American communications security and intelligence, 1943–1970},
  author={David Easter},
  journal={Intelligence and National Security},
  year={2020},
  volume={36},
  pages={1 - 16}
}
  • D. Easter
  • Published 26 July 2020
  • Computer Science
  • Intelligence and National Security
ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of the discovery by Britain and the United States in the late 1940s/early 1950s that cipher machines produced compromising emissions, a phenomenon which became known as Tempest. The British and Americans were forced to develop security measures to protect their encrypted communications but the Soviet Union was still able to exploit Tempest emissions from cipher machines in Western embassies in Moscow and read their diplomatic traffic. At the same time… 
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