At 03:32 PM 9/7/03 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >If the cellphone companies in 197 countries want to correct the code errors >that expose them to trickery and abuse, they will have to call in each >customer to make a change in the cellphone's programming, or replace all of >the cellular phones used by their subscribers.
I've read that the lifecycle of a cell phone is about 2 years, FWIW. During a kids-channel TV show, I saw that if you buy 4 dolls you get a prepaid phone free. Took me a while to get over that future-shock. >A copy of the research was sent to GSM authorities in order to correct the >problem, and the method is being patented so that in future it can be used >by the law enforcement agencies. "Laughing my ass off." Since when do governments care about patents? How would this help/harm them from exploiting it? Not that high-end LEOs haven't already had this capacity ---Biham et al are only the first *open* researchers to reveal this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]