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Re: Code breakers crack GSM cellphone encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Tue Sep 9 11:04:48 2003
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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 21:45:43 -0700
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
> See their paper at CRYPTO 2003 for more details. I am disappointed that
> you seem to be criticizing their work before even reading their paper.
> I encourage you to read the paper -- it really is interesting.
OK, then, where is it? I looked on:
www.iacr.org under Crypto 2003 -- no papers there. The title of the
paper, presented in Session 15, is:
Instant Ciphertext-Only Cryptanalysis of GSM Encrypted Communication
Elad Barkan, Eli Biham, Nathan Keller
www.iacr.org under Conference Proceedings -- Crypto 2003 not there.
www.iacr.org under Cryptology ePrint archive -- no Biham or GSM papers there.
www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/ -- latest paper is from 2000.
www.cs.technion.ac.il/~barkan/ -- access denied
www.cs.technion.ac.il -- a news item about the GSM crack, but no paper.
I'm even a dues-paying IACR member, but I don't seem to have online
access to the papers from recent conferences. I'm sure a copy will
show up in the mail a few months from now. Let me guess -- the devils
at Springer-Verlag have stolen IACR's copyrights and the researchers
were dumb enough to hand their copyright to IACR...
John
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