New attack can now decrypt satellite phone calls in "real time"
http://www.zdnet.com/article/encryption-satellite-phones-unscramble-attack-research/
Using their proposed inversion attack thousands of time on a
3.3GHz satellite stream, the researchers were able to reduce
the search space for the 64-bit encryption key, effectively
making the decryption key easier to find. The end result was
that encrypted data could be cracked in a fraction of a
second. "This again demonstrates that there exists serious
security flaws in the GMR-2 cipher, and it is crucial for
service providers to upgrade the cryptographic modules of the
system in order to provide confidential communication," said
the researchers.
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