[Thanks for sending this along, Marian! It looks like a useful project. --Declan] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Politech submission Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:00:00 +0100 From: Marian Kechlibar To: declan@well.com Hello Declan, I have some news that could be interesting for you and for your readers. It is about software that can protect wireless messaging from wiretap / eavesdrop etc. Its name is SMS 007 and it has been developed by Czech company CircleTech, s.r.o. (I am one of the two co-founders). It is a Java (J2ME) software which runs on almost all current phone models. It uses AES symmetric cipher and user-chosen keys to encrypt the SMS messages. It also has some other security features, like a secret contact list, which cannot be viewed from the outside of the application. The encryption used ensures that wiretapping entities (operators, law enforcement, maffia, anyone) cannot get to the plaintext of the message. Also data stored by the program in the phone are protected by encryption, so stealing the phone and examining it for data does not help the adversary either - unless the user selects a bad main password. SMS 007 has been available to Czech customers for 5 months, but has gone international only very recently (February 24, 2006), when Nokia Softwaremarket agreed to resell it online. Links: http://www.sms007.cz - the product webpages http://www.circletech.net - the corporate webpages http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art/1201/news2.php - an article in The Prague Post by Kristina Alda http://www.softwaremarket.nokia.com/?product_detail_s60.html&itmId=1612&pID=1 102&pmsid=33 - Nokia Softwaremarket, including the Users manual Yours Marian _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]