Dear everybody, Has there been any news about the demonstration?
I've asked Thomas Gramstad of the EFN [0] to take a look at the legal matters regarding a demonstration. I'm sure we can get cleared out whether or not the claims by the GSMA are true, and if not - if what *they* have done is illegal. Keep up the good work guys! -- Best Regards, omes [0] http://efn.no/eng-index.html - Electronic Frontier Norway On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Karsten Nohl <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear list, > > Congratulations to the discussion we started on the security of A5/1. > This was the primary goal and we did it in very challenging time > frame. Thanks to everyone! > > The demonstration planed for today is canceled. Let me explain the > reasons and perhaps start a discussion on how the project should > progress from here: > > A. The GSMA and some of its members make strong claims that what we > do is illegal. We do not believe that is the case and that this > research has not once crossed the line into illegality. However, not > being lawyers ourselves and knowing how complex wire-tapping laws are, > we want to reconfirm with our counsel that using the rainbow tables > for academic purposes is legal. > > B. Starting the discussion on how much security GSM deserves was one > of our main goals. We did it. The next steps must not contradict this > positive message we want to get across. I'll put this as a question to > the list: Do we risk killing a positive dialogue with operators and > suppliers by providing attack tools too fast? I understand that we are > 15 years into hacking GSM, but it did hit some industry players as > news this week. Would it be fair to give them a few extra weeks to > digest what should have been known years ago? > > Please let me know what you all think ... > > Cheers, > > -Karsten > _______________________________________________ > A51 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51 > _______________________________________________ A51 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51
