End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?

[Peter Kuhm]

At 16:01 28.12.01 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:

>Are there any existing, available US type
>GSM cell phones which provide good 
>end-to-end  voice encryption (ie, something
>better than the broken GSM crypto).

don't know, but you may have a look at
<http://crypto.mchh.siemens.de/produkte/hardware/topsecgsm/topsecgsm.asp?lang=eng>

Rohde & Schwarz <http://www.rohde-schwarz.com/> upgrades
a standard SIEMENS S35i with a cryptochip.

According to a article in German language it costs appr. EUR 2,300.--
and they should have sold already 500 pcs to governments.
<http://news.zdnet.de/zdnetde/news/story/0,,t390-s2097404,00.html>

Peter