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Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jaap-Henk Hoepman)
Sun Jun 8 11:15:40 2003
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In-Reply-To: <3EE0DDAC.20912752@systemics.com> (Ian Grigg's message of "Fri,
06 Jun 2003 14:30:04 -0400")
From: Jaap-Henk Hoepman <jhh@cs.kun.nl>
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 09:33:01 +0200
I thought the 3G (UMTS) cellphones at least were going to use reasonably good
crypto; don't know about the overall security architecture though.
Jaap-Henk
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:30:04 -0400 Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com> writes:
> John Kelsey wrote:
>
>> So, what can I do about it, as an individual? Make the cellphone companies
>> build good crypto into their systems? Any ideas how to do that?
>
> Nope. Cellphone companies are big slow moving
> targets. They get their franchise from the
> government. If the NSA wants weak crypto, they
> do weak crypto.
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