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Re: DEA says drug smugglers used crypto & Net but cops got around
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bjørn Remseth)
Fri Oct 29 10:39:09 1999
From: Bjørn Remseth <rmz@dunk.follo.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:42:55 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <199910290750.AAA19366@toad.com>; from John Gilmore on Fri, Oct
29, 199
Organization: Yes Interactive AS
> Years of work in standards committees and years of technical work can
> all go for naught, when those responsible for operating the service are
> untrustworthy. End-to-end encryption is your friend; it needs to get
> designed into some cellphones.
The Norwegian defense forces has designed a GSM phone with end-to-end
encryption. It uses the proprietary NSK chip and the secret NSK algorithm,
and will not be available for the general public, only for the generals and
their friends :)
The design looks sound enough though, and the phone also looks nice (the
producer is the Swedish company "Sectra": http://www.sectra.se/).
(Rmz)
