GSM and cellular crypto

[rishab at dxm.ernet.in]

Richard Parrett (?) wrote:
> GSM uses less than strong encryption, by the way. I forget the
> technical details, but it is of the level that governments can
> fairly readily crack, but beyond the reach of most private
> organisations. (So no more 'Squidgy-gate'). It would, however,
> be quite feasible to add additional second stage encryption
> to phones (since the dataflow is digital point-point). I wonder
> if Nokia, a Finnish company well outside the scope of COCOM,
> might offer a feature like this.

All operaters of cellular networks in India are to use GSM, and Nokia has
been running an enormous ad campaign, it is very likely to be the market
leader in instruments. I don't know about any encryption provided, though.


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