full-disclosure - Israeli boffins crack GSM code

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Message-ID: <021d01c3778e$1a230570$bf6b9e89@dks>
From: dksaarth at unix.za.net (Richard Spiers)
Subject: Israeli boffins crack GSM code

If your interested, check out their paper.

http://cryptome.org/gsm-crack-bbk.pdf  (18 Pages, 234KB)

"Instant Ciphertext-Only Cryptanalysis of GSM Encrypted
Communications," by Elad Barkan, Eli Biham, Nathan Keller"

Thanks Andrew T. ;p

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damian Gerow" <damian@...tex.net>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Israeli boffins crack GSM code


> Thus spake Damian Gerow (damian@...tex.net) [09/09/03 17:33]:
> > Discussion on the cryptography mailing list indicated that all this does
is
> > force a downgrade from A5/3 to A5/2, which can then be cracked.  I can't
> > find the archives online, so I'll paraphrase...