No.. as far as I know, the encryption is an integral part of the
protocol. Though Martin Tomasek tells me he's seen carriers that
don't operate with encryption turned on. But in any event, I'm pretty
sure that if the network does GSM encryption, your phone can't
request a non-encrypted channel. But as far as the authentication and
encryption goes, it doesn't add terribly to the latency and only
slightly to the bitrate.
In the US, at least, you wouldn't be able to sell a service like this
as it would make it impossible for the carrier to comply with CALEA.
I don't know about other countries, but I suspect every nation's
intelligence services would be loathe to give up the ability to tap
individual calls at will. (Which is one of the reasons that some
people find end-to-end encryption interesting in the first place.)
-Cheers
-Matt H.
On Jun 4, 2007, at 1:07 AM, Pander wrote:
Matthew S. Hamrick wrote:
...
Could it be possible to have you GSM request a non-encrypted
channel? Would this channel provide more bandwidth or less delay
because of that? If so, the extra bandwidth or reduced delay could
be used for efficiently using your own encryption.
Can anyone elaborate if this is possible with the current network
hardware and GSM service providers? If this is possible, that could
mean a new service for the GSM service providers: network
subscriptions which you can choose per connection to have network
encryption enabled or not. Your telephone could e.g. automatically
disable it when you are calling with someone which has a telephone
supporting the same end to end encryption as yours does.
Regards,
Pander
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