Inaccurate study quoting, Re: anti-crypto rhetoric (Ellison,

[Steve Mynott]

About GSM

On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 12:26:18PM +0100, Phillip Temple wrote:
> users in 106 countries, over 1/4 billion by 2003. They are already using
> secure crypto, with no government back-doors, designed to withstand
> a sustained crypto attack. However...

I don't know if you could describe A5 (GSM crypto algo) as "strong".

http://chem.leeds.ac.uk/ICAMS/people/jon/a5.html

I have been told, and you may want to treat this with a pinch of salt,
that some of the US networks using PCN have the encryption turned
off for performance reasons.

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pub  1024/D9C69DF9 1997/10/14 Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>