Secure telephones

Steve Schear s.schear at comcast.net
Sat Jul 17 22:21:28 PDT 2004


At 11:45 AM 7/17/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote:


>Pondering construction of a secure telephone. (Or at least a cellphone in
>general. The user interfaces and features available on virtually all the
>mass-market phones suck, to put it very very mildly, not even mentioning
>that there's no access to their firmware (so no chance of audit), poor or
>no support for SSL (while running HTTP through the operator's proxy), and
>typically no possibility to run more than one Java applet (or other
>program) at the same time. A combination of a GSM/GPRS module with a
>suitable embedded Linux-running computer could be the right solution.)

How about building a secure cell phone using GnuRadio as a core?  That way 
you have maximum control afforded by the protocols.

steve 





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