[Cryptography] Russian "ERA" cryptophone fiasco

[Dave Horsfall]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022, John Denker via cryptography wrote:

> Uhhhh, why do cleartext cellphones work if the towers are down? At what 
> point do we start to disbelieve what we are told about this? And isn't 
> it a bit odd and a bit unwise for people to brag about such exploits 
> before the war is over?

Perhaps the Russians were using CB radio, and the journo was confused?  
The only "encrypted" CB rigs I've seen are easily cracked (frequency 
inversion etc).

-- Dave (VK2KFU)