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Re: Code breakers crack GSM cellphone encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton Stiglic)
Mon Sep 8 13:23:27 2003
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From: "Anton Stiglic" <astiglic@okiok.com>
To: "John Doe Number Two" <johndoe2@mail.anonymizer.com>
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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:43:38 -0400
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>From: "John Doe Number Two" <johndoe2@mail.anonymizer.com>
>To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>; "Clippable"
<rahettinga@earthlink.net>
>Cc: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
>Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 6:45 PM
>Subject: Re: Code breakers crack GSM cellphone encryption
>
>It's nice to see someone 'discovering' what Lucky Green already figured-out
>years ago. I wonder if they'll cut him a check.
I think this is different however. The recent attack focused on the A5/3
encryption algorithm, while the work of Lucky, Briceno, Goldberg, Wagner,
Biryukov, Shamir (and others?) was on A5/1 and A5/2 (and other crypto
algorithms of GSM, such as COMP128, ...).
--Anton
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