I thought the 3G (UMTS) cellphones at least were going to use reasonably good crypto; don't know about the overall security architecture though. Jaap-Henk On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:30:04 -0400 Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com> writes:
John Kelsey wrote:
So, what can I do about it, as an individual? Make the cellphone companies build good crypto into their systems? Any ideas how to do that?
Nope. Cellphone companies are big slow moving targets. They get their franchise from the government. If the NSA wants weak crypto, they do weak crypto.
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