DCMA comes to mind: it could potentially make it a little harder to get your hands on any mass market eavesdropping tool.
If you are terribly concerned about this, there are end-to-end encryption phones on the market that are used by military and others already today. Such systems come with a price tag though: As for me, the ordinary end user, I just have be as careful with what I say or trust when communicating over the phone as when I'm using email. But that should have already been the case, had I thought things through, and shouldn't come as a shock. /Olle -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Honig Sent: den 8 september 2003 02:18 To: R. A. Hettinga; Clippable Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Code breakers crack GSM cellphone encryption >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]
