In a related story, hacker Chris Paget created his own cell-phone base station that turned off encryption on all devices connecting to it. The station then routes the calls through VoIP.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/intercepting-cell-phone-calls/ -Adrian On 2 Aug 2010, at 16:02, Bill Squier wrote: > "...In his presentation at the Black Hat Conference, German GSM expert > Karsten Nohl presented a tool he calls Kraken, which he claims can crack the > A5/1 encryption used for cell phone calls within seconds." > > http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Quickly-decrypting-cell-phone-calls-1048850.html > > -wps > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Cryptography Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
