A5/1 cracked

H H Leland lelandh at seiu.org
Mon May 10 09:53:17 PDT 1999


Doug--

It means if the Feds are after you, don't use a cell phone to talk to your lawyer (or let your lawyer use a cell phone to talk to you). It also means that the spy-boys like things this way.

--Hank Hank Leland Service Employees International Union lelandh at seiu.org

Doug Henwood wrote:


> [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."



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