Silicon.fr reporting GSM crypto broken

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Owen Blacker)]

Brian Morrison, quoting me:
> 
> >Partial (and hurried) translation follows:
> >
> >| Mobiles: researchers break the GSM code
> >| The vulnerability allows interception and listing to calls
> 
> There's something about this on The Register too, Israelis exploiting
> some feature of the encryption algorithm to do with channel
> equalisation by my reading.

Yeah, that sounds about right.  I should add lots of disclaimers to my
rather hurried translation.

> More here:
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32653.html

Thanks.  Didn't occur to me to try looking on other English-language
sites...  ;o)

Though I think their paragraph "The security loophole arises because of
a fundamental mistake made by GSM developers in creating a system which
corrected for interference of the line prior to encrypting a
conversation, he explained." might be down to poor translation
somewhere (from Hebrew, maybe?) as my translation feels like it makes
more sense to me.  I'm quite willing to be proven wrong, of course.


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