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RE: Code breakers crack GSM cellphone encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Mon Sep 8 23:10:17 2003
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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:24:17 -0700
To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>,
Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>, "'David Honig'" <dahonig@cox.net>
From: David Honig <dahonig@cox.net>
Cc: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>,
Clippable <rahettinga@earthlink.net>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <F504A8CEE925D411AF4A00508B8BE90A0558D738@exna07.securitydy
namics.com>
At 05:04 PM 9/8/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
>Why the heck would a government agency have to break the GSM encryption
>at all? The encryption is only on the airlink, and all GSM calls travel
>through
>the POTS land line system in the clear, where they are subject to
>warranted wiretaps.
>
>Breaking GSM is only of useful if you have no access to the landline
>portion of the system.
You forget that some regimes want to listen to GSM calls
in places that they don't control.
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