Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

[Donald Eastlake 3rd]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, John Kelsey wrote:

> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:42:01 -0400
> From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j at ix.netcom.com>
> Subject: Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
> 
> ...
> 
> I keep wondering how hard it would be to build a cordless phone system on 
> top of 802.11b with some kind of decent encryption being used.  I'd really 
> like to be able to move from a digital spread spectrum cordless phone 
> (which probably has a 16-bit key for the spreading sequence or some such 
> depressing thing) to a phone that can't be eavesdropped on without tapping 
> the wire.

See http://www.silicon.com/news/148/1/3828.html?source=nh

> ...
>
> --John Kelsey, kelsey.j at ix.netcom.com
> PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD  BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Thanks,
Donald
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