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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1185)	12/6/1999 4:20:00 PM
From: JOHN ASHBOLT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12249

Maurice, that was a much better response. I can fully understand Jims concern about your state of mind, fancy failing to answer all questions fully and logically. The choice is yours and what you choose could effect your choice. Some people still choose GSM even though they have no choice, we will see an even more exponential growth in CDMA when 6 billion people have the choice. I think the answer to all questions is choice. Choice, JD.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1185)	12/6/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12249

Cell Phone Crypto Penetrated by Declan McCullagh 10:55 a.m. 6.Dec.1999 PST Israeli researchers have discovered design flaws that allow the descrambling of supposedly private conversations carried by hundreds of millions of wireless phones. Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir describe in a paper to be published this week how a PC with 128 MB RAM and large hard drives can penetrate the security of a phone call or data transmission in less than one second. More Infostructure in Wired News Read more about Gadgets and Gizmos Check back with Wired News for continuing coverage Read more Politics -- from Wired News Read more Technology -- from Wired News The flawed algorithm appears in digital GSM phones made by companies such as Motorola, Ericsson, and Siemens, and used by well over 100 million customers in Europe and the United States. Recent estimates say there are over 230 million users worldwide who account for 65 percent of the digital wireless market. Although the paper describes how the GSM scrambling algorithm can be deciphered if a call is intercepted, plucking a transmission from the air is not yet practical for individuals to do. James Moran, the fraud and security director of the GSM Association in Dublin, says that "nowhere in the world has it been demonstrated --an ability to intercept a call on the GSM network. That's a fact.... To our knowledge there's no hardware capable of intercepting." The GSM Association, an industry group, touts the standards as "designed to conform to the most stringent standards of security possible from the outset [and] unchallenged as the world's most secure public digital wireless system." Not any more. Shamir says the paper he co-authored with a Weizmann Institute of Science colleague in Rehovot, Israel, describes a successful attack on the A5/1 algorithm, which is used for GSM voice and data confidentiality. It builds on the results of previous attempts to attack the cipher. "It's quite a complex idea, in which we fight on many fronts to accumulate several small improvements which together make a big difference, so the paper is not easy to read or write," Shamir, a co-inventor of the RSA public key crypto system in 1977, said in an email to Wired News.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1185)	12/6/1999 5:46:00 PM
From: Bux	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12249

3G adoption will be rapid says Ericsson. allnetdevices.com 3G Set To Boom: Ericsson October 13, 1999 -- Broadband third-generation (3G) telephony will grow faster than previously expected, Ericsson claims. By early 2004, 100 million people will use 3G technology for voice and data, according to the company. A previous forecast pointed to approximately 3G 50 million users by the end of 2004. It said the total number of mobile telephone users would be 1.1 billion in 2004. The forecast is based on "the enormous interest that network operators are showing," said Kurt Hellstrom, President of Ericsson. Related storied: Qualcomm Demos 3G Prototype First 3G Call Made in North America NEC Prototypes 3G Video Smart Phone