How the Greek cellphone network was tapped.

[alan]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Ian Farquhar:
>
>> Crypto has been an IP minefield for some years.  With the expiry of
>> certain patents, and the availability of other unencumbered crypto
>> primitives (eg. AES), we may see this change.  But John's other
>> points are well made, and still valid.  Downloadable MP3 ring tones
>> are a selling point.  E2E security isn't (although I've got to
>> wonder about certain teenage demographics... :)
>
> It's also an open question whether network operators subject to
> interception requirements can legally offer built-in E2E encryption
> capabilities without backdoors.

Makes me wonder how this will effect the OpenMoko phone if someone builds 
an encryption layer for it. (OpenMoko is a totally open sourced phone.)

I am still trying to convince my wife to let me get a developers kit for 
it.

-- 
"ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined.
ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct
assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..."
                                   - Alan Cox

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