If your interested, check out their paper. http://cryptome.org/gsm-crack-bbk.pdf (18 Pages, 234KB)
"Instant Ciphertext-Only Cryptanalysis of GSM Encrypted Communications," by Elad Barkan, Eli Biham, Nathan Keller" Thanks Andrew T. ;p ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damian Gerow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:37 AM Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Israeli boffins crack GSM code > Thus spake Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09/09/03 17:33]: > > Discussion on the cryptography mailing list indicated that all this does is > > force a downgrade from A5/3 to A5/2, which can then be cracked. I can't > > find the archives online, so I'll paraphrase... _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
