Following the links from a /. story about a secure(?) mobile phone
VectroTel in Switzerland is selling, I came across the fact that this
firm sells a full line of encrypted phones.
http://www.vectrotel.ch/
The devices apparently use D-H key exchange to produce a 128 bit AES
key which is then
On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:19:38 -0400, Perry E. Metzger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Following the links from a /. story about a secure(?) mobile phone
VectroTel in Switzerland is selling, I came across the fact that this
firm sells a full line of encrypted phones.
http://www.vectrotel.ch/
Hi all!
The devices apparently use D-H key exchange to produce a 128 bit AES
key which is then used as a stream cipher (presumably in OFB or a
similar mode). Authentication appears to be via a 4 digit pin,
certainly not the best of mechanisms.
The 4-digit PIN should not automatically be
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Following the links from a /. story about a secure(?) mobile phone
VectroTel in Switzerland is selling, I came across the fact that this
firm sells a full line of encrypted phones.
http://www.vectrotel.ch/
The devices apparently use D-H key exchange to produce a 128
On 23 May 2006, at 8:19 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Following the links from a /. story about a secure(?) mobile phone
VectroTel in Switzerland is selling, I came across the fact that this
firm sells a full line of encrypted phones.
http://www.vectrotel.ch/
The devices apparently use D-H
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AES is new, and people keep claiming progress towards
breaking it, without however, so far producing any
breaks.
RC4 is old and has numerous known weaknesses, which are
tricky to code around, and have caught many an
implementor - notice for example Wifi. But these are
known weaknesses,
