Code breakers crack GSM cellphone encryption

[Anton Stiglic]

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>From: "John Doe Number Two" <johndoe2 at mail.anonymizer.com>
>To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>; "Clippable"
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>Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 6:45 PM
>Subject: Re: Code breakers crack GSM cellphone encryption
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>It's nice to see someone 'discovering' what Lucky Green already figured-out
>years ago.  I wonder if they'll cut him a check.

I think this is different however.  The recent attack focused on the A5/3
encryption algorithm, while the work of Lucky, Briceno, Goldberg, Wagner,
Biryukov, Shamir (and others?) was on A5/1 and A5/2 (and other crypto
algorithms of GSM, such as COMP128, ...).

--Anton



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