About

This site documents research on keyboard acoustic emanations conducted at the University of California, Berkeley.

Researchers

• Li Zhuang - Graduate student, UC Berkeley EECS
• Feng Zhou - Graduate student, UC Berkeley EECS
• J. D. Tygar - Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley. Research interests include computer security, privacy, and electronic commerce

The research

This project investigated whether it is possible to recover text typed on a standard keyboard using only acoustic recordings. Our results demonstrated that this is indeed feasible with high accuracy, raising important questions about the security of typed information in environments where microphones may be present.

The work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office.

Contact

For questions about this research, please contact: keyboard-emanations at cs.berkeley.edu