Starium (was Re: article: german secure phone)

[Ian BROWN]

I think to some extent, the next-generation mobile standards (UMTS/3GPP) will 
do this automatically... GSM currently encrypts the air interface between 
phone and base station; 3GPP pushes this much further back into the network 
(all the way back to a device in the user's home network, I think). 
Unfortunately I don't think two 3GPP phones talking to each other will do 
end-to-end  -- saves the phone companies having to implement MITM or escrow 
functionality for law enforcement interfaces :(
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