Silicon.fr reporting GSM crypto broken

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roland Perry)]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian 
Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>What I was referring to happened before there was any hardware out
>there, pretty sure it would have been between 1985 and 1989 that the
>algorithms were altered.

Indeed, and I'm pretty sure that there were still enough handsets and 
base stations being rolled out that it was "just too late" to do 
anything. Only by about six months, though. (Obviously, and I 
unintentionally misled by saying "twelve" years, the GSM networks had 
been deployed on a trial basis for some time before the public launch).
-- 
Roland Perry