[silk] Blackberry in India
Peter Gutmann
pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sat Sep 27 05:33:10 PDT 2008
>It doesn't appear that they cracked it in the sense of cryptanalysis. it sounds more in the direction that they got the key.
>
>there was some discussion on it here
>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/blackberry_givi_1.html
It could be almost anything. Here's another scenario: government MIB's break
into the targets house and illegally plant listening devices. In order to
explain where they got the information in court, they say they got it by
decrypting Blackberry traffic via a process that's secret for notional
security purposes.
Peter.
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