Silicon.fr reporting GSM crypto broken

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Morrison)]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:10:49 +0100, Owen Blacker wrote:

>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.
>

Yes, I re-read your translation and the Register one and yours sounds
better to me too.

However, it seems to me that the threat is not really from off air
monitoring of GSM calls but rather from our paid public servants (sic)
who are already able to listen in on production of whatever spurious
excuse they've thought of....

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