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To: Chris Reeder who wrote (1216)	3/21/1997 9:21:00 AM
From: Harvey Rosenkrantz	of 152472

Has the phrase "as ye sow, so shall ye reap" been translated into Swedish or Illinoisian for that matter? In digging into the encryptian problem, it appears that it may only invlolve picking up the number that has been dialed. The following press release from qcom implies there is a problem, but a statisitically rare one and that interceptions are very difficult to achieve in a real environment. Can you shed any light on this issue? QUALCOMM Responds to Digital Security Issues SAN DIEGO, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to recent news reports concerning the security and privacy of digital wireless communications, Qualcomm Inc issued the following statement today from Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs, chairman and chief executive officer for QUALCOMM. "Yesterday's announcement on digital cellular security underscores the need to provide consumers with enhanced security and privacy, which are the hallmarks of our Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital technology, QUALCOMM's CDMA technology continues to successfully provide a very high level of protection from cloning and eavesdropping. It remains impractical to manufacture a monitoring device that would enable a listener to scan hundreds of channels and listen in randomly on any CDMA call. "CDMA provides a unique scrambling method that continually changes throughout every call. Any one of more than 4.4 trillion codes are utilized during the scrambling process. Voice privacy and cloning protection provided by QUALCOMM's CDMA technology are not affected by the security issues Surrounding the Cellular Message Encryption Algorithm (CMEA), and therefore changes to CDMA networks and wireless phones are, unnecessary." "QUALCOMM recognizes that no technology is impervious to security attacks, We are actively working with the Telecommunications Industry Association to even further strengthen the resistance of CDMA technology to security attacks."

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