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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Huge Cajones Remailer)
Mon Feb 3 13:25:20 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:51:44 -0800
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: nobody@huge.cajones.com (Huge Cajones Remailer)
Telecom makers to develop encryption for mobile phones
Three telecommunications equipment makers will cooperate in developing
scrambler technology to prevent interception of mobile phone calls and
other misuse. Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., NEC Corp. and
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will put up a combined 1.9 billion yen to open
a research laboratory in Yokohama on Feb. 12.
Within five years the facility is to perfect encryption technology to
protect wireless communications and data transmissions, and for possible
use in electronic commerce.
The government-affiliated Japan Key Technology Center will contribute
1.3 billion yen to the lab.
Researchers will work to develop a mobile communications version of
"public key" scrambling technology now used to secure data transmitted
online.
Emphasis will be placed on encryption methods requiring minimal data
exchange, because conventional encryption requires large volumes of data
and could interfere with communications over mobile phones.
The center will also work on technology allowing secure communications,
either voice or data, between two or more parties over mobile phones.
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/enews/TNKS/page/High-Tech.html#gen145
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