Did Hezbollah use SIGINT against Israel?

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Thu Sep 21 22:37:35 EDT 2006


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Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
 > That isn't supposed to be possible these days...  (I
 > regard it as more likely that they were doing traffic
 > analysis and direction-finding than actually cracking
 > the ciphers.)

Ciphers cannot be cracked when used correctly.  However,
military cipher procedures are often highly user
unfriendly, and in consequence seldom used correctly.
Come to think of it, we have the same problem on the
internet.

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          James A. Donald
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