> See their paper at CRYPTO 2003 for more details. I am disappointed that > you seem to be criticizing their work before even reading their paper. > I encourage you to read the paper -- it really is interesting.
OK, then, where is it? I looked on: www.iacr.org under Crypto 2003 -- no papers there. The title of the paper, presented in Session 15, is: Instant Ciphertext-Only Cryptanalysis of GSM Encrypted Communication Elad Barkan, Eli Biham, Nathan Keller www.iacr.org under Conference Proceedings -- Crypto 2003 not there. www.iacr.org under Cryptology ePrint archive -- no Biham or GSM papers there. www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/ -- latest paper is from 2000. www.cs.technion.ac.il/~barkan/ -- access denied www.cs.technion.ac.il -- a news item about the GSM crack, but no paper. I'm even a dues-paying IACR member, but I don't seem to have online access to the papers from recent conferences. I'm sure a copy will show up in the mail a few months from now. Let me guess -- the devils at Springer-Verlag have stolen IACR's copyrights and the researchers were dumb enough to hand their copyright to IACR... John --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]