Tempest Engineering
notes on engineering design for meeting CRYPTO-TEMPEST
requirements in electronic equipment
shielded twisted Tri-Par*
DC-TPSK triature-phase-shift-keying in sesqui-pair,
(cf DC-OQPSK offset-quadrature in dual twisted-pairs*) |
[for inter-box data-transfer meeting crypto-TEMPEST EMI-minimization]
Shielded twisted tri-par is magnetically-coupled three-conductor
constant-current triature (spatial tri-phase) signalling-wire:
it's advantages include:
- single-toroid (ferrite bead) EMP-blocking;
- mechanically-controlled co-length for minimal group-delay,
maximum signal-frequency -
being approximately the inter-wire radius:
typically 1mm 200GHz in 1.6 I/R
(cf twisted-pair greater inter-wire
distance and less-uniform long-lay cable-lengths
10mm reduces to 20GHz in 1.6 I/R);
- more uniform cable-bending (than twisted-pair);
- more uniform conduit-bending (than pairs of twisted-pairs);
- combined clock-and-data in single cable minimizes clock/data
discrimination via electromagnetic probing -
one and only one transition occurs at every clock:
- information is encoded as spatial-phase polarity-rotation,
virtually undetectable outside the cable shield
(which helps confine and redistribute E-M twitches);
- thrives in optimal-low-pass-filter maximal-phase-distortion
(e.g. the '010101:101010'-transition half-bit group-phase-slam is
centered in its full-bit-radius);
- optimal conductor-density (4-conductor is not as tight per-conductor);
- 67% of the mass-redundancy and cost of paired twisted-pairs
(3-conductor + 1-shield vs. 2x2-conductors + 2-shields);
- uniform inter-pair magnetic-coupling
(equal to 2-conductor twisted-pair - 4-conductor is not as tight);
- 33% longer conductor MTBFailure than paired twisted-pairs;
- 33% greater signal-phase separation than 4-conductor (120° vs. 90°);
- potentially digital-6-phase (001 011 010 110 100 101,
excluding toroid-blocked 000, 111; albeit 011-type are
half-current or zero-goes-negative rebalanced);
- potentially allowing 2-conductor-paired feedback (e.g. 100/001-to-010 clocks
010-to-110/011 feedback).
Tri-Par must be driven by current-mode logic
line-buffer/drivers such as ECL Emitter-Coupled-Logic;
The line-terminators should include small additional
capacitance to damp sub-nano-second switching-transients.
Note fiber-optics has less magnetic coupling
but greater optical coupling which lasts longer,
the duration of the fireball,
and is similarly more susceptible to
laser-light penetration-interference.
The joints of fiber-optics must be very-high-precision
manufactured to maintain coupling I/R index-of-refraction;
and nano-crazing directly interferes with photons.
Fiberoptic technology is yet new and little
development of photon-color has been tried;
meanwhile, little induced-lasering has been researched;
neutron-pumping of fiber-glass is an infancy-art ...
and better to let the infant grow-up in a
science-conducive environment,
than send it immediately to the TEMPEST front:
it's ultimate utility may be found in fiber-optic-web/nets
interconnecting tens of thousands of microprocess-control elements,
as in adaptable-wing devices,
and single-photon-encryption media-complexes ...
since these require more circuitous service-looping,
and photon-packet-switching,- and can be cost-and-mass-effective.
* ['tri-par'ed 3-paired 3-adjacent 3-twisted 'thristed' 3-conductor (cf 'twisted'
three:two, thrice:twice)]
* [cf DC-OQPSK, OQTK offset-quadrature-transition-keying in dual-shielded twisted-pair,
was application-invented by RKPetry ca 1978-79, Linkabit CORP Engineer #37, for
minimal-EMI emission on optimally-/heavily-filter-damped interbox-cabling, with
full-bit-radius clocking at high signal-bit-rates, on TEMPEST Crypto processor equipment
installations for USA SAC-CP and USN UHF-Follow-On military systems contracts: It was
precursor similar to the decades-later IEEE 1394 "FireWire," which particularly defined
a data control format ... DC-TPSK or TTK in shielded Tri-Par is hereïn a subsequent
and further improvement]
A premise discovery under the title,
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