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RE: Code breakers crack GSM cellphone encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olle Mulmo)
Mon Sep 8 13:19:26 2003
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From: "Olle Mulmo" <mulmo@pdc.kth.se>
To: "David Honig" <dahonig@cox.net>,
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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:54:28 +0200
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DCMA comes to mind: it could potentially make it a little harder to get
your hands on any mass market eavesdropping tool.
If you are terribly concerned about this, there are end-to-end encryption
phones on the market that are used by military and others already today.
Such systems come with a price tag though: As for me, the ordinary end
user, I just have be as careful with what I say or trust when communicating
over the phone as when I'm using email.
But that should have already been the case, had I thought things through,
and shouldn't come as a shock.
/Olle
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[mailto:owner-cryptography@metzdowd.com]On Behalf Of David Honig
Sent: den 8 september 2003 02:18
To: R. A. Hettinga; Clippable
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Subject: Re: Code breakers crack GSM cellphone encryption
>A copy of the research was sent to GSM authorities in order to correct the
>problem, and the method is being patented so that in future it can be used
>by the law enforcement agencies.
"Laughing my ass off." Since when do governments care about patents?
How would this help/harm them from exploiting it? Not that
high-end LEOs haven't already had this capacity ---Biham et al
are only the first *open* researchers to reveal this.
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