A5/1 cracked

[Doug Henwood]

[From Nettime. Can someone explain what this is all about? - Doug]

"A Pedagogical Implementation of A5/1," by Marc Briceno,
Ian Goldberg, and David Wagner.

   http://jya.com/a51-pi.htm

"With COMP128 broken and A5/1 published below, we will
now turn our attention to A5/2. The latter has been acknowledged
by the GSM community to have been specifically designed by
intelligence agencies for lack of security."