Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

[Jaap-Henk Hoepman]

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 at 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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