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RE: Oh for a decently encrypted mobile phone...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei, Peter)
Fri Sep 15 19:42:30 2000

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From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
To: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>, "'Greg Rose'" <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Enzo Michelangeli <enzo.michelangeli@firstecom.com>, cryptography@c2.net
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:02:58 -0400
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Well, that IS interesting. I note that there is both a government and
a civilian version, but I can't tell if they use different crypto. Of
course,
it's probably impossible to obtain an independent verification of the
security. 

Peter



> ----------
> From: 	Greg Rose[SMTP:ggr@qualcomm.com]
> Sent: 	Thursday, September 14, 2000 9:59 PM
> To: 	Bram Cohen
> Cc: 	Enzo Michelangeli; cryptography@c2.net
> Subject: 	Re: Oh for a decently encrypted mobile phone...
> 
> At 22:08 00/09/13 -0700, Bram Cohen wrote:
> >Wouldn't it be ironic if they resort to buying a bunch of stariums ...
> >-Bram Cohen
> >
> >[That would require that Stariums actually appear on the market at
> >some point. --Perry]
> 
> Stariums (a) should appear RSN (I have one) but (b) are not mobile.
> 
> There's the Qsec-800 CDMA mobile from Qualcomm, but that won't work in 
> England I don't think. See http://www.qualcomm.com/govsys/qsec.html .
> 
> Disclaimer: I work for one and invest in both, so I'm biased.
> Greg.
> 
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