At 09:19 PM 12/30/2001 +0100, you wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Ryan Lackey wrote:
I'm unclear why Lucky dislikes the Sectra Tiger (www.sectra.se); the key management is not what I'd like, but seems designed specifically for hierarchical military or corporate organizations, which is the only viable market for a EUR 2500 encrypting cellphone.
The reason why I have little faith in the Sectra Tiger is because I talked with one of Sectra's head cryptographers. Below is a brief recap of the conversation:
<recap with clueless crypto engineer deleted> OK, so why don't we pool our funds to encourage the reverse engineering and release of source code to a popular PCS/GSM phone which can be readily re-flashed and with sufficient resources (or easily augmented) to handle this app? I'll donate $100 e-gold to get the fund going. I'll establish a publicly viewable e-gold account to hold other contributions. The account access key can be secret shared among a few fellow CPs. steve