On 7/10/10 11:19 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > AT&T debuts a new encrypted voice service. Anyone know anything about > it? > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20018761-17.html > > (Hat tip to Jacob Applebaum's twitter feed.) > JavaScript needs to be enabled: http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=18624&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=31260&mapcode=enterprise AT&T to Offer First Carrier-Provided, Two Factor Encryption Service for Smartphones
AT&T Encrypted Mobile Voice Service uses Powerful Combination of Hardware and Software to Enable Voice Calls with High-Level Security Dallas, Texas, October 06, 2010 AT&T to Offer First Carrier-Provided, Two Factor Encryption Service for Smartphones AT&T Encrypted Mobile Voice Service uses Powerful Combination of Hardware and Software to Enable Voice Calls with High-Level Security Dallas, Texas, October 06, 2010 newsrelease AT&T* today launched AT&T Encrypted Mobile Voice, the first carrier-provided two factor encryption service, which provides high-level security features for calls on the AT&T wireless network. The service is targeted at government agencies, law enforcement organizations, financial services institutions and international businesses. ... AT&T Encrypted Mobile Voice combines KoolSpan’s TrustChip® and SRA International’s One Vault Voice™ into the first carrier-provided two-factor encryption solution. TrustChip is a fully hardened, self-contained crypto engine inserted into the smartphone’s microSD slot. Embedded with AT&T TrustGroup, the KoolSpan TrustChip offers the strength of additional hardware authentication, enables encrypted calling interoperability with a defined group of other AT&T TrustGroup users and can be managed over-the-air. ... AT&T Encrypted Mobile Voice supports BlackBerry® smartphones and Windows® Phones on the AT&T wireless network. Unlike other encrypted voice systems, AT&T Encrypted Mobile Voice is not limited by availability of legacy Circuit Switched Data coverage and can operate in the over 190 countries globally where AT&T provides data roaming. AT&T Encrypted Mobile Voice meets the government information classification standards for Controlled Unclassified Information, offering The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) FIPS – 140-2 validation. ... --- It would appear to be susceptible to the FBI's proposed law on making plain text available. It's OEM'd: http://www.koolspan.com/products/trustchip.html http://www.koolspan.com/images/stories/docs/KoolSpan_TrustChip_Secured_Solutions_Secure_Voice.pdf http://www.koolspan.com/images/stories/docs/KoolSpan_TrustChip.pdf http://www.koolspan.com/images/stories/docs/KoolSpan_TrustCenter.pdf Linux is supported in the TrustChip Developer Kit http://www.koolspan.com/products/developer-kit.html AES-256 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com