http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/ Engadget Comments for GSM call encryption code cracked, published for the whole world to see http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/apparently big brother can hear and watch now..Is there any privacy left? ]]>Dec 29th 2009 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
Body language. Excluding a nod.]]>Dec 29th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/]]>Dec 29th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
*Sigh*

Mr. Woods is not gonna live this down for a while...]]>Dec 29th 2009 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
He shouldn't...]]>Dec 29th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
I think we should cancel GSM voice , only use HSDPA and LTE for Data , do VOIP with end to end encryption.]]>Dec 29th 2009 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
Oh, btw, using a newspaper as a source for an IT security news is just bound to bring FAIL.]]>Dec 29th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Agree ..]]>Dec 29th 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Im in germany but only talk chinese in shanghainese dialact on the phone with my mum i. e. :D ]]>Dec 29th 2009 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
They could always just record it and get a translator :P]]>Dec 29th 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/who said that ..... 8D
@geekthree
suuure, didnt know google already published voice to voice translation 8D]]>Dec 29th 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
Yeah, like there's not a billion people who can understand Chinese :)]]>Dec 29th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/TERRORIST

j/k]]>Dec 29th 2009 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/its hard for them to understand chinese with shanghainese dialect ;)
if someone talks with me in "Platt-deutsch" (a northern version of german) I wouldnt understand a single word :D
@ TheHoldSteady
where do you live ..................... :p]]>Dec 29th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
Wheeew!

* turns my phone on again *]]>Dec 29th 2009 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/right, as if creating a rainbow table that allows you to find the encryption key of every call in 3-5 min doesn't count as breaking a cipher...
from a purely cryptonalitical pov this is indeed true, but to me a cipher which is easily circumvented in less than 20 mins looks like it's friggin' broken]]>Dec 29th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Still? When was it good?]]>Dec 29th 2009 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/I think he means the fact that CDMA is more secure that the GSM system + the fact that it's faster in most situations.]]>Dec 29th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
The bottom line is that the method to crack GSM 64 bit is out there free, and for all to use and the carriers have had a 128 bit solution available for years and have not bothered to implement it.

I doubt most people will bther to listen in - carriers, obviously already can, but why do these idiot carriers wait until the horse has bolted beore even looking to see if there is a stable dorr available?]]>Dec 29th 2009 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
Mainly because it would cost them a lot of money to do it, and no one would really notice that they had done so.

From a business perspective, that makes little sense.]]>Dec 29th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/02/research_may_spell_end_of_mobi.html]]>Dec 29th 2009 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
Kinda...

They didn't crack and publish it the last time, they just said they'd cracked it, Engadget's post still stands as new content i think]]>Dec 29th 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/ GSM.]]>Dec 29th 2009 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/
What's that? I can't hear you over my longer battery life and Youtube videos loading in the background while I'm talking..]]>Dec 29th 2009 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/or should that be HSPA > CDMA = GSM ?? probably a bit closer...]]>Dec 29th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 29th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/How can you compare the CDMA standard from 9 years ago to the LTE standard that hasn't even been finalized?

He was making the point that on the whole, CDMA is a more secure (and typically faster) radio technology than GSM (in it's currently deployed state of UMTS, EDGE, and HSPA).]]>Dec 29th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/That sounds like bad signal to me...

"What's that? I can't hear you over my longer battery life and Youtube videos loading in the background while I'm talking.."]]>Dec 29th 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/29/gsm-call-encryption-code-cracked-published-for-the-whole-world/Dec 30th 2009 6:03PM