At 05:04 PM 9/8/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: >Why the heck would a government agency have to break the GSM encryption >at all? The encryption is only on the airlink, and all GSM calls travel >through >the POTS land line system in the clear, where they are subject to >warranted wiretaps. > >Breaking GSM is only of useful if you have no access to the landline >portion of the system.
You forget that some regimes want to listen to GSM calls in places that they don't control. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]