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To: Forest Gump who wrote (196)4/17/1998 12:07:00 AM
From: justaninvestor  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 3086
 
Hi Forest - There have been some previous questions in this thread wondering about how secure digital phones were. Whether it was a so called bona fide or private code that was cracked is almost irrelevant - it affected 80M phones around the world and a standard that the US seemed willing to adopt.

<The SDA say that they were able to crack the GSM network algorithm due to weak encryption in the original design. When the system was being designed, several European government agencies were successful in their demands to weaken encryption standards for government surveillance purposes.>

That last sentence sure sounds like the FBI's position in the States.

Regards

bbruin

Regards

bbruin



To: Forest Gump who wrote (196)4/17/1998 3:20:00 AM
From: Moonglow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3086
 
Forest,

Would the in-house code be stronger or weaker than an industry code?

I'm assuming weaker, but I just wanted to be sure!

Thanks!

Juanita