Satellite Phone Encryption Cracked 54
New submitter The Mister Purple writes "A team of German researchers appears to have cracked the GMR-1 and GMR-2 encryption algorithms used by many (though not all) satellite phones. Anyone fancy putting a cluster together for a listening party? 'Mr. Driessen told The Telegraph that the equipment and software needed to intercept and decrypt satellite phone calls from hundreds of thousands of users would cost as little as $2,000. His demonstration system takes up to half an hour to decipher a call, but a more powerful computer would allow eavesdropping in real time, he said.'"
sony's psn botnet (Score:1, Insightful)
Security through obscurity (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Security through obscurity (Score:5, Insightful)
Redundant stupidisms in written English (Score:0, Insightful)
I'm so sick of reading gibberish like this:
"many (though not all)".
Is there a variety of "many" that doesn't mean "not all"?
Is sensible encryption really that hard? (Score:5, Insightful)
Is it really so hard to use an encrypted key exchange, such as DHKE, to establish a completely private connection on something that you are broadcasting, and do not know who might be listening in?
Such key exchanges practically scream "USE ME" for situations like encrypting anything being transmitted over the air, such as cell phone usage.
Of course, it also means that the police wouldn't be able to listen in either without setting up a fake cell phone tower to be a MitM, at least not until somebody develops an other efficient algorithm to solve the discrete log problem, or unless they had a quantum computer on the job that is more powerful than any ever yet built,
Re:Redundant stupidisms in written English (Score:2, Insightful)
Is there a variety of "many" that doesn't mean "not all"?
Yes. It's called "many". It means "a large number". You could say for example "Many humans live in the Solar system", even though none have ever lived outside of it.
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